As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been taking the inspiration of National Novel Writing Month and National Blog Posting Month to start a new blog/web site of sorts, Academic iPad. And I’m also doing this because a) as a part of this EMU eFellows program, and b) I’m giving a very informal talk at the end of this month about iPads and art/academia for a forum in the Art Department here.
So far, I’ve noticed three things:
- I’m not particularly inspired about blogging daily about iPad things, I suppose because I’m not sure what else I can say about using iPads that I haven’t said or that don’t strike me as pretty obvious. Use the iPad for reading; use it for writing; use it for everyday internet stuff (e.g., email, light web browsing, searching); use it for some notes; use it for fun. I suppose there are “fine points” to be made about all of these things, but I’m not sure how interesting those finer points really are for anyone.
- I have been motivated to monkey around more with my iPad(s) and try some new tricks, which I suppose is also a good thing and/or good unintended consequence of this little project.
- Between the iPad thing, this blog, and EMUTalk.org, I pretty much blog every day anyway. So I’m not sure it’s much of a challenge for me.
Anyway, we’ll see how it pans out. I’m not going to be giving up on this little experiment mainly because of I still feel like I owe something to the eFellows and the Art department crowds, but I am also not assuming that this is going to turn into a regular and ongoing site after this month.
I think it’s a pretty narrow topic. I am always wary about tying my own efforts to one specific product or platform. But I’ll put the blog in my feed reader and we’ll see how it goes.
Of course, this might be a “one month only” kind of site. We’ll see….