There's A Girrafe On My Unicycle: Can Blogging Enhance Creativity?
Henry Gee
Tuesday, 24 June 2008 14:57 UTC
Clare Dudman is going to be gestating engendering hosting a session at the conference on the interaction between blogging and creativity, with uncertain assistance from me. Poincaré talked about ideas like gas molecules colliding in the room of his mind; Einstein talked about dreams; and Archimedes was in his bath when it hit him…that flash of light, that lightbulb going on, that great insight – that EUREKA MOMENT when two apparently unrelated ideas come together. What did all these fine gentlemen have in common? That’s right — none of them had a blog. Think what insights they’d have come up with had they been members of the blogosphere. But wait - can blogging really -fix concerete gnomes remove unwanted body hair be a useful catalyst for creativity?
Using a few examples from our own experiences as a springboard, we intend this to lead to a workshop/discussion on how blogging can help us create. Please bring along some of your own experiences of how blogging has opened creative doors that might otherwise have remained shut. Girrafes and unicycles not supplied.
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I remember the crackerjack (CRACKERJACK!!!) pencil. But the cabbage?
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Wonderful, Brian! So glad you will be able to make it to the meet-up. Guess peer pressure really works, eh? :) Does this mean you will be sitting in on the panel with Henry and Clare? Looking forward to meeting you in August!
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Anna – it depends if I’m invited to do so, but happy to!
Henry – the cabbages were in the game at the end where you were asked questions, and for each one you got right you got a present, for each you got wrong, you got a cabbage. If you got three cabbages or dropped anything (you had to hold everything you were given) you were out. See the Wikipedia article.
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Brian – you are a mine of information. I can remember Leslie Crowther, and even Peter Glaze, But not the cabbages.
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Brian – you are a mine of information. I can remember Leslie Crowther, and even Peter Glaze, But not the cabbages.
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That’s great, so pleased you can come, Brian. I hope you will give a talk about how to set up a popular science website, and how blogging can help science writing or vice versa.
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I think I’m too late to come up with a new talk, Maxine, as Matt is about to publish the schedule, but I’ll be contributing to Henry and Clare’s session, which I think overlaps with those.
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Brian, glad you can make it. Just a FYI, it’s not too late to propose another session of your own. We’ve reserved a few spots in the programme for sessions that will be proposed and voted on the morning of the conference. When we post the programme (probably Monday or Tuesday), you’ll see those open slots.
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