Further thoughts

i don't know how any other recent PhD's feel, but having other people read my dissertation REALLY wracks my nerves.  It's not that it isn't good - it is VERY good, if i may say so myself - but as i go through it, i realize that i could have expressed myself better in places. 

*sigh*

anyhoo, my co-instructor really likes it, and has offered to mentor me through the process of turning it into a book.  how hot is that?

in other news, i have decided to take the stealth approach with regards to approaching major Black organizations about their use of technology to communicate.  more on this later....

Research Scrapbook

i needed to find a place to backup my research idears and processes...then i realized that i already had a place where i used to do that.

So i'm back.

Current research idears:

• Black blogs and environmental justice - is anyone out there?
  
• revising the dissertation for publication
  
• anybody studied BET.com or BlackPlanet.com?
  
• looking for a Black organization using technology in significant ways to keep its employees/membership together
  

Current research processes:

• a comprehensive list of black and black-oriented blogs
  
•  - this is going to be problematic for a number of reasons...need to revisit
  
• updated webliography for online identity research
  
• continue developing a framework for examining online cultural content
  

Dunno if anyone still reads this joint (no-one's posted in over a year), but anyone with advice on being new, Black, tenure-track faculty at a research one university holla atcha boy.

More content later...