Have you ever rebooted your computer or mobile phone, just to see if it would improve its performance? That’s where I am right now with my online and infonaut life.

The Back Story

I took some time off from my in-house day job earlier this year to focus on taking care of my father – it’s a long story and this isn’t really an up close and personal website. I put Twitter on automatic and then stopped at that point.

The chapter in my life at the last firm as an in-house regional trainer in IT, work-place peformance and policies and procedures is done and I’ve started doing some consulting work.

With my schedule being very different, and the demands upon me changing, I’m finding myself in need of a reboot.

What does this mean? In terms of this web site, I’ll be honing the focus on the convergence of old media and new media, technology, and entertainment.

All Stories, No Content

As a produced playwright and songwriter, public speaker and panel moderator, technology trainer and technology enthusiast, I’ll be bring more of that to bear in producing stories for this site. And yes, that’s my not so hidden agenda – I believe sharing stories are what make me excited and so I won’t be using the word content in these here parts.

Content always sounds to me like marketing people or organizational development people within enterprises taking creativity (especially storytelling) and speaking of it as a head count sort of thing. Or cogs in the machinery of making money.

Did George and Ira Gershwin create content? No. George wrote symphonies, operas, musicals, and many beautiful songs. Ira of course wrote songs and musicals. The lesser celebrated Gershwin brother Ira also won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Content? Bah.

So part of this web site will focus on how artists are using technology to made their art more efficient, more beautiful or more effective in connecting with other people. And part will focus on how technology enthusiasts and professionals can enhance the artfulness of their use of cutting edge technology to become story tellers.

Emerging & Converging

A business wiz told me recently this is what’s called convergence. Not my favorite word – I’d probably prefer mélange or fusion or blend or a heady brew of art and tech. But if convergence makes more sense to more people that’s fine.

As long as you don’t call any of this content I’ll be content.

A blogger I read wrote a great article about his looking back at 3 months without blogging. I’ve been out of writing real posts for at least that long, what with directing/producing my play with music (yeah, wrote the songs, too).

Social Media — What is it Good For?

Below the jump is my look at all of the social media I’ve been using.

Twitter

Wall of Lights on Flickr

I’m trying out the new web browser, Flock and seeing how easy it is to create a post from browsing my Flickr account.

Fairly easy so far!

Tags: OriginalPhotos, Around Town