It is the last studio session on Thursday. There are still people that I havnt made contact with. If you need me to look at what you are doing please post your URL into the comment box and say who you are if it is not obvious. Blogs are of course nothing new see http://latest-art.co.uk/blog/ but by now I am starting to get a handle of how they work. The good thing is that once the community of users starts getting familiar with the technology and at least one person ‘hosts’ the conversation, the potential for a good and proper dialogue increases. Whatever you might think of the level of my input, at least it’s shared. If I mention something to someone in a comments box, it’s available to all of the group. If you are not sure of what to do you can just look at what other people are posting up and check it out. It’s easy to see who is thinking and who is not. It’s not as good as face to face, but we can’t always be there in person. I’m aware that when I come in, I only see certain people, others I never or rarely see. Sometimes I find myself repeating the same thing to each person and this can be a good way of everyone being able to access the information in their own time. I’ve decided I like the informality of Blogs. I can just drop in information about an opening, just be thoughtful about my own contribution to this, try to raise the theoretical levels of thinking or just comment on someone’s posting by sending an artist’s name. The problem with essays is that they have an academic tone that has to be artificially kept all the way through and except for the writer only I get to read them. This is similar with the journal. However the sketchbook/notebook is different. The sketchbook’s drawing dialogue needs to be private. Drawings operate by triggering ideas as they arrive through the doing. It’s a delicate space to work in and perhaps would lose sensitivity if hosted online.