Well, it’s been a while. I’ve been busy, what can I say.
Things I’ve been up to:
Moving back to Minnesota. Last September I loaded up my worldly possessions and returned to the Twin Cities.
New Job. In January, I started a new job at Internet Broadcasting Systems as a web developer. After a month or so of day to day maintenance work I shifted gears and took up residence as the primary programmer on a new weather application we’d been developing. (An initial beta site was already up when I started working on the project, and last Tuesday we launched another site.) The upshot of which was that I got to learn some new things. (Specifically, XSLT, some more advanced javascript, and how to work within the Akamai platform.)
What I’ve been thinking about:
Where I want my “career” to go. I’ve worn a number of hats, including volunteer coordinator, communications intern, proof-reader/copy-editor, and web developer. I’m trying to figure out where I want to go and what I need to do to get there.
What 20th century literary theory can teach us about the web. Specifically, the structuralism to post-structuralism shift and the implications for designing online systems to organize and categorize knowledge. (More on this in future posts, perhaps.)