Retrodicals | Printdown’s
December 7, 2007 · Print This Article
You’ll notice some changes in this blog structure and the way it reads again so here’s hoping this is the end of the spring clean for 2007 and that I can get down to some serious summer business.
Today was the wrap-up meeting for NSW LearnScope and this alone has given me the jitters. Back to consultancy land for a while amidst changes to the local working politic….it makes me happy though to know that NSW LearnScope as a project has been successful , exhausting but awesome two year project (s) journey.
I drove back through the most torrential downpour today all the way over the hill from Sydney to Orange and then have been behind the console since;
- updating the FLNW2 wikispace timetable
- confering with the TALO mob and the overlap with TESOL EVO 2008 group
- Twittering
- chatting with Graham Wegner about the concept of printdowns.
The idea behind printdown goes something like this. A lot of our writing online is at risk of never being printed which for some is no real issue as it means that there’s less paperwork to be worried about.
What about our kids, those in the future who may have missed the online and who for many reasons may never access our musings and connections ? Sure, we could say the same about any online site, wiki, podcast etc. but in my estimations blogging is about a textual connection which has some artefact value.
It would be great to see other people offer a one year printdown of their blog for sale via a widget in the side-bar….it would give others an oppourtunity to digest the stories differently.
It’s a though anyway and probably one I’ll follow up in the new year. Maybe printdown from Jan 1. 2007 to Jan 1. 2008.
Lots happened during that period in my life.
BlogBack
BlogLog
BlogBlog
printblog
retrodical
retrournal
retrozine
retroback
paperblog
blogback
I’m all for the ‘printblog’ button.
In fact is there anyone out there with an idea how we could ‘printdown’ a blog in B5 color with automatic meta, references page, footnote and disclaimers attached ?
Perhaps Lulu offers that version….then it’s just a matter of offering it back to the universe as carbon on paper which may last half as long as this digital existence.
I’m all for the artefact though Graham…to show my dis-interested teenages how people conversed in the 21st century
I started playing around on Lulu last night but realised that I need to cut’n'paste the contents of my blog into a word processing document (trying in odp format) and mess with the layout to get it looking right. Via Silvia Tolisano on my twitter network came this link that I’ve yet to investigate but it could be a possible solution.
I used to publish my online diaries each year and publish them as a zine. (called “Laura Panic”)
But I had to do it manually, cut n pasting…..
Those were the days..
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