several years ago, i was in a seminar on digital textuality and culture. one of the cornerstone requirements of the course was a personal homepage, a project in which i immersed myself for several weeks and then pretty much forgot. the major project was a longer study of some (we hoped) timely issue at play near the intersection of scholarship and the online world. i wrote a series of short-ish pieces on the ways homepages construct, reflect, convey, and perform the identity (and, i guess, subjectivity) of their creators.
like any good graduate student would, i left both projects to collect dust...
the homepage gets a half-hearted update from time to time, usually when i fill in the blanks for a new semester's syllabus. i do spend a good deal of time consuming the web's matter, and i'll hop on the new media booster train whenever it rolls past, but i think today's skulking has left me spinning.
the questions from the other side of the skulk, those i haven't thought of since i last tried to "make" something on el web del mundo, are fairly tired. probably too tired to enumerate. things to sleep on. maybe tomorrow i'll have a better sense of whether or not it's cool to edit already-posted prose for style, or of whether or not providing links to amazon for my "current" reading and listening tastes is helpful (or my complicity in a killer marketing plan).
Posted by dave at June 8, 2003 7:20 PM | TrackBack