Procrastadabbler

I work alone, a lot. And I like it. I like the hours of solitude tapping away at my computer and visiting with my books. But there is a need for fresh ideas and to be able to bounce ideas around. And that’s where twitter and facebook come in. Those two tools are becoming more important to me every day as a way to test ideas, to see what other’s are thinking, to be connected to new ideas. And then the blog is the place where I can start to put it together without censuring myself because I’m thinking it’s for publication.

Yes, I’ve written about this before, but it’s becoming even clearer to me.

The virtual doesn’t replace the face-to-face. It is part of a broader range of experience. Through FB and Twitter I am connected to something larger than myself and larger than my geography. It makes it clear that there is no such thing as the independent scholar. It makes heteroglossia and intertexuality concrete.

But that’s another writing project for this summer.