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After a Lengthy Silence...
Tue, 06/06/2006 - 23:50 — Snurb
I realise I haven't posted here for a while - but that doesn't mean that things haven't been busy on this site. I spent some time upgrading the site to the latest version of Drupal recently, and that's meant some fairly tricky code fixes because some of the Drupal modules I'm running here haven't been fully upgraded to version 4.7.x yet - but at least trackback.module is now out in a new version which incorporates some of my contributions. Good to contribute to an open source project for once, instead of just doing research on them... The new version of Drupal has also switched to a new templating system, so while the look of this site may not have changed much overall, I've had to do some fairly serious reworking of the code underneath. Anyway, that's the reason for the four days' gap in the site statistics which you can see on the front page (and happily the changeover over those days also wiped out four days of trackback spam...).
Some more Drupal work today, but on a different site I'm currently preparing for M/C - Media and Culture. Happily today's coding was mainly design work and only took up a few hours, and I'm fairly satisfied with the results - I won't say anything more about it yet, but watch that space! There should be an announcement some time in July.
I'm also continuing to oversee the development of a Drupal-based blog system at QUT (see Blogs and Wikis in Teaching at QUT - Update), and we're continuing to do some more tweaking in preparation for semester two there, too. I'd do it myself but just don't have the time for it - so any Brisbane-based Drupalites are welcome to get in touch...
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the rise of the new media academic
Again, I am impressed. Here is a new media academic who not only has a PhD (which puts him in the top of the field by default), but can also program, and can also write books (plus manage one of the most sophisticated blogs in the field). A true newmedia academic!
Many of us have become a little tired of those in the new media field who don't have a PhD, who can't use the technology they theorise, and only maintain self-aggrandising weblogs but have made no major contributions to the academic codex.
The field of new media in my mind is akin to the field of architecture; that is who would ever hire an architect who couldn't build a house or who would ever hire an architect who only knew how to network with other architects, but never made any contributions to the built environment?
Dr Craig Bellamy