theinforager

Day One.

The inforager sets sail into cyber life without the usual bravado or sea chants. As a bi-citizen of both the pre-net and new net world it should be an interesting and challenging journey.  While I am comfortable using the everyday tools of the age  and moving information through virtual space,  I am, at the least, a bit uncertain about posting naked here for the world to read.

Do I self-edit and ensure a certain pasty blandness? Do I simply assume an identity which craftily bears little resemblance to my own but allows a more forthright boldness and even daring than my RealWorld persona (although I am certainly not shy or bland there)? Are thoughts and reactions here aimed at satisfying the course requirements, or will they reflect real and unguarded insights into the journey itself as we become a virtual community, and explore a wide range of digital terra?

Will we truly work together or will we act as if we are working together–lending only the most necessary bits of our time, talent and personalities to the group, parsing, as it were, our digital education experiences, digital social and professional lives?  Will there be, is there a sort of permissable digital multi-personality disorder? And is it fun?

Getting set up to play in Comm 110 has not been difficult. Learning to survice 30 minutes in Warcraft or a flame war somewhere on the wild, wild web is more challenging.

So that’s it. Now I am a blogger–joining the estimated 10 million other bloggers out there.

Hope I have something to say that’s more interesting than this first post!