Finishing my thoughts
The last little while, I started a lot of essays but finished very few of them. Today, I started completing them and will continue working on finishing up other thoughts before starting too many new threads of writing. For instance, I pushed out to my blog a ![[WWW]](/www/moin/htdocs/classic/img/moin-www.png){kind=small}
statement of my professional aspirations for 2005 and a statement of my research interests (which I entitled "Seamless Use and Reuse of Digital Content by Scholars"). Moreover, I wrote some very preliminary thoughts about content authoring, based on the bibliography I assembled for David's upcoming conference talk -- and wrote a quick update on the progress Tom and I have made on integrating MetaLib functionality into the Scholar's Box. I started some new threads too (actually quite a few yesterday), but want to discipline myself to finish more of my thoughts before rushing off to the next ones. Making myself write relatively coherent and self-contained prose, which I then "publish" to my weblogs is part of my process of finishing what I start.
Collages
Generating my own collages prompted me to notice The New York Times > Arts > Art & Design > Making Art From Bits and Pieces:
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In rescuing and dignifying scraps of local life - a matchbook from a bar, someone's tossed-off photo-booth portrait - Mr. Evans can be thought of as a historical preservationist, operating on an unusually intimate scale. Yet his own moods seem reflected in how he handles the materials. In one day's collage, ticket stubs and candy wrappers explode like fireworks against an ebulliently bright background. In another, juxtaposed images of Hitler and Oliver North make a grim political statement.
Open Threads
I usually like to work in parallel on a number of entries. I've decided to break out into a separate wiki page OpenThreadsOfCurrentInterest to track pieces I'm currently working on.
