I love writing this blog, and keeping in touch with interested and interesting people through it, but this blog isn't my main priority--my research is. Try as I might, blogging/tweeting/etc does get in way of doing serious work, partly because it uses the same part of my head as research, partly because of the time it takes to keep everything updated, and partly because blogging is a lot easier to do than research. So, to get some serious work done in the next 3 months before teaching starts again, I won't be tweeting, blogging, or even emailing. No media-whore stuff either. Everything about 'out there' will have to wait for a while. I hope everyone understands, and I look forward to talking with you again soon.
Steve, 8/6/10.
Update. So, massive success on the no-twitter or blogging policy. Massive fail on the no-media whoring. Managed to 'appear' in the LA Times, the Examiner, the S/Indo [1][2], the SB Post, which I can't find a link for, the Rabo Blog, the Storyful Blog, and a few other places like UL Links. Did a fair few radio gigs for RTE, Newstalk, and Clare FM as well, even when I didn't want to. Those radio producers are charmers, it's true. Back to regular twitter/blog service, with a new blog skin and a different angle, next week.
Great, so now we can bad-mouth you in peace...
Enjoy your summer.
Good luck with it.
See you in the Fall.