Blogger Act 2: Back at the keyboard

So I'm still keeping up with the facade of a rookie blogger. At the moment, the sheer purpose of this post is to procrastinate from my New Media Wiki Proposal. I intend to propose that geocaching (see earlier post) represents an exemplar for online gaming, convergent uses of new media technology, and online communities in general. However, what I currently lack, is the willpower to sit down, concentrate and write. Ah ha! There's the problem.

This major bout of procrastination started last Friday, the final day of week 13 of Semester One. It was official, no more classes, just study week, exams, and then five weeks until I'm off overseas. Woot, no more study. Guess again.

The content I learned about in Virtual Cultures was absolutely fascinating, relevant, and I thought was of high importance. But do you think I can force myself to sit in front of my laptop for a few solid hours and get this damn assignment done? No. I've beat around the bush, I've had sporadic bursts of productivity, where I've done a lot of good quality research. Everything's all mapped out and coherent in my head, I just can't seem to get it on paper... ahem, woops, Virtual Cultures, I mean, I can't seem to get it typed into Word.

QUT's had another bright idea, they've made their own Wiki ( https://wiki.qut.edu.au/display/newmedia/Home ). It's the Creative Industries Faculty's answer to our first bike with training wheels, preparing us all for making a half-respectable/productive contribution to more prominent Wikipedias that exist.

And without failure, Dr Axel Bruns is most definately the most published contributor to the New Media Wiki. Either Axel secretly did his PhD in time management, or he's done a lot of copy and paste from his printed works.

The articles that exist on the New Media Wiki are well written, and as university students, the authors or contributors I should say, have gone to extensive lengths to allow further networking to different, but related topics that exist both externally away from the wiki, and in other articles.

When I first heard the university had created its own wiki, I thought it would just be QUT's answer to a highschool Intranet page, but I was pleasantly surprised.

Alas, it's 12.40am, and I'm typing an incoherent blog entry about what flippant things are zooming in and out of my decaffinated head. Upstairs I trek to the kitchen for some hot Milo, and biscuits. Pip pip.