While I love the free service provided by wordpress.com, I decided it was time to move to my own hosting. I’ve officially moved my blog to http://rarefrontier.org/ . This is a moment of reflection for me. I had started the wordpress.com blog as an outlet for some of my ideas that were not fully fledged into research, and since that time I’ve been working more and more aggressively on doing research that is publishable. This focus has caused the enormous hiatus I’ve been on lately. I plan on continuing to write, but I need to find my voice again.
Having participated in a fantastic online conference at APPOSITIONS, I wonder if having my own private server for research is necessarily a good idea. Connecting and sharing research with other academics seems like a much better approach than shouting from my own platform. Thus, online conferences, and shared blogs are more interesting approaches. Perhaps I should just point to articles online? But then, isn’t this just a live CV?
I suppose one solution is to return to the reason for writing, the sheer pleasure of it. So please join my at my new location at-