You’re likely to notice a slight change in focus on my site going forward. Not so much a change but an emphasis I guess. My former boss, Peter Schilling, is part of the academiccommons project, a site devoted to sharing resources related to technology and teaching in the liberal arts. It just went out of beta last week and they’re going to be picking up slightly edited versions of a lot of the short product reviews I do here, especially the open source/free/off the beaten path stuff I tend to focus on. This means I’ll be trying to do more of that than I had been in the past, and trying to do it more consistently as well. I’ll still be the same almost incoherent and almost always profane blogger you’re accustomed to here, and I’ll still be covering games and hardware and whatever else tickles my fancy, I’ll just be adding a bit more on the software side of things, especially as it applies to education, and I might be posting more thoughtful commentary now and again.

There’s no need to worry about what you post in the comments section – the two sites are not connected, and anyone trying to google me is unlikely to find me due to the ‘real’ david hamilton. Please continue with your profane irreverence, I enjoy it.

The bonus is there’s a possibility I’ll get paid for some of this, which cracks me up – I would never in my wildest dreams have imagined my ramblings here would ever amount to anything more than something I share with friends and family, and when Peter first broached the subject, mostly I was embarrassed – I didn’t want my professional colleagues to see this stuff. But he convinced me, and initial feedback has been positive so I’m sticking with it.

I’d link over to the section of the site where my stuff appears but as I mentioned they’re in beta and today the links appear to be broken. As soon as things get patched up I’ll post about it.