Dr. Artz's Blogs
I am a compulsive writer. I write books, papers, stories, blogs, and
long emails. I fill journals and notebooks with ideas that I don't want
to forget. I write for pleasure. I write to organize my thoughts. I
write to communicate. My blogs are just a slightly more disciplined and
public form of my private notebooks. I write blogs because things
interest me. I like to write about them. And occassionally somebody
likes to read about them. I think my two main strengths for writing in
general and blogging in particular are that I am good at organizing my
thoughts and I am good at expressing them.
Below are links to some of my blogs. I should explain that I am not one
who blogs every day with the expectation that readers will follow it
every day. The problem with today's newspaper is that tomorrow it will
be yesterday's news. I try to write things that have more enduring
value. I write when I am in the mood to write. And I write what I feel
like writing about. So, I may make weekly posts to a blogs for a few
weeks or a few months and then not make another entry for a similar
amount of time. So, if you choose to take a peek at any of my blogs
think of them as short chapters in an ongoing book rather than daily
news flashes. And if you have any reactions, positive or negative,
please do not hesitate to let me know.
- Making
Sense of IT I just started this blogs to provide succinct answers to
questions about emerging information technologies.
- Patterns and Predictions is a blog about predicting the
future. In my classes, I am always making predictions about new
technologies and their impacts. Students ask from time to time if there
is anyway they can keep up with my predictions after they have left the
program. So, I created this blog for that purpose. Not only will I make
predictions, but I will explain how they are made so you can make
your own predictions.
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Ranting and Reflecting was my first attempt at blogging. It provides
insight and commentary on a wide
variety of topics including writing, blogging, the life of
a professor, idle musings and anything else I wished to rant about or
reflect upon.
It can best be summed up as a general, thematically-threaded, commentary
blog. This was my first blog and currently has around 14,000 page
views, which I am very pleased with given the arcane natuer of the
topics.
- I created
Perspectives on Video
Games to begin documenting and reflecting upon this emerging
cultural phenomenon. This blog representes an attempt to find a
middle ground between the irrelevance of academic journals and
the lack of rigor of webpages and blogs. It was, at least initially,
an experiment. And it became a prototype of the Public Research
Journal. I add to in streaks as my attention increases and then recedes
again.
- Comments on
Crichton is a public research notebook which explores the work of
Michael Crichton and his contributions to both literature and the ethics
of technology.
- I spent over four years studying Second Life as
Doctor Cosmos . I created this blog under the name of Doctor Cosmos
to record my thoughts about virtual worlds. I
haven't added a post to it since Jan 2011. But it still has Over 11,000
page views 20 of which were in the last week (Jan 2015). This shows that
blogs
do
not need daily monthly or even current content. If you write good stuff,
people will continue to find it.