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People love to pigeon-hole (characterize or stereotype) other people. Sometimes we offer to other people suggestions as to how we might like to be characterized. A person with a wide variety of interests, plus some knowledge and experience, might be hard to characterize in this way. I suspect that would be true of you.

Does this blog, then, reflect one theme or interest, or does it reveal your current thoughts on whatever currently interests you?

Perhaps I can understand the confusion. The sub-heading for the blog explains: “The random thoughts of a specialist in environmental issues.” One might expect that the blog would focus on environmental issues.

What, in fact, is the main theme of this blog? I am not prepared to do an in-depth study… but I did look at the last 10 posts to see if there was an obvious thread.

1. Weekend recap {personal observation}
2. Music – Sneaky Sound System – Pictures (Tonite Only Remix) {personal observation}
3. WordCamp Whistler site live {social media}
4. Sixth Photo Meme Redux {personal observation}
5. BC Digital Divide – Bridging the computer literacy chasm {technology}
6. Collaborative efforts in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics indie media gathering {social media}
7. Tip # 5 – Delegate, subcontract or get an assistant {advice}
8. Restaurant review – The Alibi Room (Gastown) {restaurant review}
9. VANOC 2010 Indie Social Media Meeting Liveblog {social media}
10. Tip # 4 : Use your technology wisely! {advice}

Rather than use your categories or tags (which I didn’t find too revealing) I made up my own characterizations. I realize that is the second weakness in this study (the first being the small sample size).

To summarize my observations:

3 – personal observation
3 – social media
2 – advice
1 – restaurant review
1 – technology

So, I have some tentative conclusions.

- I saw no posts that were particularly informed by your being a specialist in environmental issues.
- Tech/social media is clearly a dominant theme (4 of 10 posts)
- Your personal life is the primary theme. It clearly includes the 3 that I marked ‘personal observation’ but I think it informs the 2 that are marked ‘advice’ and the 1 on technology.