For once I'm on top of things enough to make a live blog entry while I'm traveling. I had hoped to do that when I went to Taiwan, but my wireless access there kept dying. But today I'm sitting in the lobby of the William Penn Omni hotel and picked up a decent wireless single. Of course who knows who is hacking into my computer as I write this?
At any rate (I should tag that phrase since I think I'm using it too much in this blog), today I am giving a presentation on about the blogging I've been doing as a chair. Just realized that I should clarify that CEA is the College English Association. That's a natural organization which looks combines interest in literature and composition, two areas which usually get separated more. I've been a longtime board member of PCEA which is the Pennsylvania affiliate of CEA. We hold a conference every year, and I manage the PCEA Web Site.
I'm really just at the formative stage of this topic. Partly I need to get more disciplined about making blog entries. But then often I'll sit down and spend some time writing in the blog and feel guilty because then I'm not doing something more important. Still, surely I have some sort of obligation to my reading public. Or at least I had an obligation before I alienated that reading public by getting too sidetracked and not posting anything for too long.
Anyway, I do feel I'm back on track with making regular entries. Hopefully. Plus I find I start to really enjoy this writing after awhile. I like the idea of mapping out the chair's work over time. So though I've completed a pretty incomplete map, at least over time there will be something to look back at.
Plus, I've always wanted one of those globes with the pictures of the sea monsters on it. I mean, its easy to find an accurate map. But what fun is that? I prefer to think there is still a little magic and mystery left in the world. Maybe that's what this blog really needs, a few fantastical entries. Maybe I'll just make something wild and sensational up. A little fiction. Would that throw you as a reader?
At any rate (I should tag that phrase since I think I'm using it too much in this blog), today I am giving a presentation on about the blogging I've been doing as a chair. Just realized that I should clarify that CEA is the College English Association. That's a natural organization which looks combines interest in literature and composition, two areas which usually get separated more. I've been a longtime board member of PCEA which is the Pennsylvania affiliate of CEA. We hold a conference every year, and I manage the PCEA Web Site.
I'm really just at the formative stage of this topic. Partly I need to get more disciplined about making blog entries. But then often I'll sit down and spend some time writing in the blog and feel guilty because then I'm not doing something more important. Still, surely I have some sort of obligation to my reading public. Or at least I had an obligation before I alienated that reading public by getting too sidetracked and not posting anything for too long.
Anyway, I do feel I'm back on track with making regular entries. Hopefully. Plus I find I start to really enjoy this writing after awhile. I like the idea of mapping out the chair's work over time. So though I've completed a pretty incomplete map, at least over time there will be something to look back at.
Plus, I've always wanted one of those globes with the pictures of the sea monsters on it. I mean, its easy to find an accurate map. But what fun is that? I prefer to think there is still a little magic and mystery left in the world. Maybe that's what this blog really needs, a few fantastical entries. Maybe I'll just make something wild and sensational up. A little fiction. Would that throw you as a reader?
Hi Gian,
I'm glad that you're getting back into blogging more regularly. I'd highly recommend Jill Walker Rettberg's new book on blogging:
http://www.amazon.com/Blogging-Digital-Society-Walker-Rettberg/dp/0745641342/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239690999&sr=8-1. I just got done reading it. It has a whole chapter on blogs as narratives.
Want to have some fun reading comics online? Check out http://www.zudacomics.com/. They have stories in a wide variety of genres. You can even submit your own comic that you've created. Today is my birthday, by the way....
-Eric-