While it hasn’t really been a conscious decision, I seem to have taken a rather extended break from blogging without really intending to do so.  After my last six posts were just annotated del.icio.us links I did think I should make sure the next post has a little more substance, but you’re getting this instead.  Really, I just thought I should check in and say I’m alive and well, just very busy.  In January this year I returned to the Communication Studies discipline here at UWA and am finally getting my head around the new position, as well as all my new teaching commitments.  It has also been one of the hottest summers I can remember which really doesn’t make for any more time behind the computer screen that is absolutely necessary!

I do intend to get back into blogging properly soon.  Toward the end of last year I think I had a bit of blog lethargy plus a considerable information overload.  I’ve now scaled back my Twitter network to 1/4 it’s original size.  I also read Jean’s post on leaving Facebook and seriously considered it (yes, as Axel lamented last year, my closed network is getting more attention that my open ones), but there are just too many people who communicate through Facebook that I would find it too hard right now to let those connections fizzle away.  That said, as I will have been blogging for five years this May, perhaps a little break was due, anyway.  However, I guess if the WGA are getting back to writing, I should try to as well!

More soon … ish.