Konnichiwa. I have return from the Island Fortress Hideaway. It was very pleasant week all round.

For most of that week, I found myself writing a good few thousand words of a novel for NaNoWriMo. You can see my profile here. Add me as a writing buddy if you’re doing it too. I know, I am massively behind the word limit. But I think two good days and I’ll be back on top of it.

I may, at some point, start talking about it on here every once in a while. It is about museums and the future, after all.

I’ve neglected the various parts of the newcurator datashadow, so I’m probably going to be focussing on them for a while whilst I play catch-up. You can find me at:

Delicious – Where I throw the various articles that have caught my interest.

Tumblr – Mainly, something of a scrapbook for images. I don’t tend to reblog or use text that often, and I’ll follow back anyone who isn’t looking like a spambot. I think I’ve only blocked one person for being downright disgusting.

Twitter – My Almighty Pulpit to the Outside World. I’m over 2300 followers, almost at 2000 followings and rapidly approaching 2000 tweets. As for the dramatic difference in who I’ll follow back, it’s mainly down to the fact that I don’t have a clue who they are and what they do. I will always follow back any artist or museum worker. I’ve extended that pretty far to mean almost anyone associated to that realm. There’s a few culture magazines, many kinds of designer, plenty of freelancers and a variety of students in various states of graduation or employment. It would help if you told me if I should be following you. @ or DM me.

I still continue to block snake oil salesmen. I do love the “Report for Spam” button. I’ve also created a couple of lists, “Museums” will just be a short list of museums I’m trying to pay a large amount of attention to, and “Museum Shinobi”, which I hope will turn into a comprehensive list of people working within museums. I may make an “Artist” and a “Museopunk” list soon, but without a decent RSS feed on each list I’m in no rush to do it yet.

Facebook – This still doesn’t have a plan. It’s a great way of discovering artists though. I get a new one every day and I do like looking through their work. Otherwise, feel free to follow me. It seems to be used as an informal way to contact me. Not as official as a blog comment, not as direct as an email, not lost in the masses of a twitter response. I’m kinda happy with that.

Flickr – People make me a contact, I return the favour, the whole friends RSS feed going into my feed reader. So I see all. Otherwise, I don’t use it for much. When I use photos in blog posts (something I do rarely anymore) I look on Flickr and add them to my favourites. Otherwise, I don’t use it for much.

Last.fm – Haven’t listened to anything in ages. Will correct that today. Try to friend me on there if you like, but I will judge if I want your music in my Friends Playlist. Radio Newcurator is still plodding along. Someone keeps listening to a lot of 80s synth. The people in that group tend to know me in some form or we have something more than just a one-off contact. Don’t let that (or the 80s synth) put you off. Probably best to say if I know you on another network.

And of course, the Museopunk network. It’s been a bit quiet recently but I hope to kick it around a bit. Go join.