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November 08, 2005
The National Grid, blogging, and New York!
While I haven't been actively concerned with my research topic for a couple of weeks (hence the silence here) ó I've been packing up and getting my shit together to go to New York next week ó I have been dealing with the national grid project a bit. We've received funding to print the first issue, and Jonty and I will be working on this over the next couple of months, pulling together contributions, content, and designing it (printing February, and distributing in March 06).
And while this blog's been a little quiet, I have been investing myself in the blog on the national grid site. Following our initial frustration with the fact that other people (who?) would only take part in blogging if something was being bagged (bitchy!), we almost took it offline. Discussing this though we kind of got back to what we'd originally planned the site/blog to be... initially a conversation space for Jonty and I to work out what this publication project might be, how it could work, what we might talk about, etc. We decided to set ourselves the task of systematically (once a week) posting a new topic, and (taking turns) replacing the national grid logo. Personally I'm quite enjoying ó a 'designed' conversation between 2 people in 2 different cities who share some of the same concerns/interests, but who have quite different ways of expressing these ó the weekly juxtaposition of mine and Jonty's alternating logos on the home page, and the way we write about whatever appears on the blog. This seems to suit our desire that the grid should grow/spread organically... as we develop our conversation, perhaps more people will want to take part? Who knows? I think the important thing is that it's giving us a chance to try and contextually locate ourselves and the project.
Anyway, I go to NYC on the 20th of this month and I will be jumping headfirst into this research topic as soon as I get set up there. I will attempt to respond to the GRC feedback below either later this week or early next week.
Posted by Luke Wood at November 8, 2005 12:30 PM