Fin de la nuit

The Flickr experiment has ground to a halt. O and I explored some features usefully but probably just scratched the surface. S requested membership and posted a photo but did not anything else. I doubt that much else will happen now - possibly because handling visual materials is not a core activities for most colleagues. I am also thinking that, for the next SIG thing I do, I'll give a tighter brief (eg request membership, post a photo, comment on a photo) and specify a time-frame, so colleagues don't feel they can put off participating. I'll also send reminder emails because if they want to learn about social media, they do have to use them! Overall, the SIG is going nowhere fast because there isn't a moderator following such principles. It's not because they are colleagues that they should know better (in fact possibly the opposite as so few have an online presence).

I finished reading the first two chapters from Koshy's AR book yesterday, and used the rest of the day to set out ideas based around this text, to start drafting the RF2 submission (or whatever the number is). I thought at first that I would write only about the paradigm section, but ended up with all sorts of notes about the intro, the LR and the data chapters - as well with a long list of texts to read. So it was a really useful session. I will get Koshy's book as it is turning out much better than I first thought: the vignettes are of interest, but mostly it's her presentation of 'key features' that is spurring me to consider all sorts of things within and beyond AR.