Andrew Miller

So this summer I’m pulling together a lifeblog, which will incorporate all those federated tidbits I generate across the web into one “lifestream.”  None of this will involve painfully personal or private musings — I’ll be sharing only information that is already public — but it will most likely commit the sin of the overshare. The sheer banality of such a large quantity of “personal” information will be the most likely turn-off; its main utility will be for those far away to get a snapshot of my current activities, thought and feelings as well as those with whom I regularly interact in the real world to have fodder for starting conversation.  This kind of activity already happens within Facebook — I’m just trying to find an outlet that is fully under my control.

I’ll also be trying to start a legitimate blog, and post “blessays” (to use Stephen Fry’s term) regularly.  As I transition back into Academia (caps for fun) and into a PhD program where I have to be both prolific and inventive with my own research program, I’ve realized it’s important for me to get back in the habit of regular expository writing.  And since I’ve discovered I can use Wordpress (my blogging platform) to type on the iPhone in landscape mode, I’m hoping to increase my chances of sitting down and dashing off an entry by expanding the situations in which I can easily do so.

So anyway…welcome?  You’ll probably be reading this as an archive or a post further down the page, as I’m hoping to get a few other “real” entries written before I make this public and finalize (ha) the end-user design.  I’m going to turn on comments for all, at least initially, to see if I can trap any real people amongst the bot-net that will surely be my greatest source of hits.