experimental

My interests really can be summed up into one word: mashup. Long before mashup became a word to signify taking bits and pieces to make a new thing (esp. as relates to Web2.0 technologies), I have been making "mashups." I created a book in second grade, using shelfpaper over cardboard as the covers, construction paper for the pages, and plastic fiber as the binding. Of course, I wrote the story and illustrated it, too.

In addition to all of my opensource projects and experiments, I continue to work with
with a variety of multimedia in digital projects as well as "traditional" multimedia in a 2D form utilizing such media as sand, found objects, and stucco. Some wonder how art and technology fit together. Problemsolving is an important part of technology, especially programming. Problemsolving is creative -- thinking outside "the box" = thinking creatively. I wear lots o' hats: Chair of DYG (Dynamic Content Group) for the UGA Libraries, member of the PacerCMS development team (an opensource newspaper/journal software), member of the Faculty Learning Committee on Emerging Technologies, Blog admin, metadata moonlighter, database worker, gadget junkie, and of course, blogger, photographer, and freelance web tinker.

Near future projects include training departmental staff in using the new ETD database (and rewriting our existing documentation to reflect new changes in policies and procedures), beginning work on a research area in Second Life, continuing to work with Drupal and the Drupal Users Group, creating training documentation for PacerCMS, and presenting on blogging at the August UGA Web Developers Lunch n' Learn Series -- in addition to all of the usual things.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to drop me a line or a chat request
...and yes, I will confess, this is a Drupal driven site. Drupal is probably the ultimate mashup -- it's built from bits n pieces of everything, which suits me just fine.