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On the subject of sidebars

The keen-eyed among you may have noticed that I’ve also added a little link to Moreish - my tumblog, which can be found at http://megpickard.tumblr.com/, which is a different sort of collection of stuff altogether.

In the spirit of Humphrey Littleton introducing One Song To The Tune Of Another on ISHAC: if my wanderings around the web were a trip abroad, then….

…this blog would be the wordy What I did On My Summer Holiday post-return writeup, mixed up with various fieldnotes scrawled in the margins of whatever I’d been reading beside the pool.

My Flickr images would (natch) be my incredibly tedious slideshow which I would inflict on the neighbours at great length. My del.icio.us links would be like the post it notes I’d stuck into the back of the guidebook and scribbled in my moleskin as I traipsed about the foreign city.

My last.fm profile would recount
my soundtrack on my ipod as I climbed the steps to the castle and lazed on the balcony.

And my tumblog is the scrapbook I cobbled together out of found objects and contextless stuff from the journey - a tram ticket; a remembered scene; the wrapper of a candy bar with a silly name; a timetable; an overheard snippet of conversation in a taverna.

It’s a collection of found digital ephemera, 98% presented without context or explanation.

I wish there was a Tumblr WP plugin, though - or a way to sneak it in to my regular postings like with del.icio.us links.

Anyway, I wanted to point it out in case you hadn’t found it.

And here’s something I dug out this afternoon which I think is very cool indeed:

Where the cicadas at?

(Unrelated: I always want to pluralise sidebar to sidebären, like Gummibären)

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