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Tuesday, 24 April 2007

Word of the day

This is continuous partial attention span, from Courtney Gibson, Head of Arts, Entertainment and Comedy, ABC TV. The term describes our common state of mind in these times. Courtney was one of the speakers at the National Library's hugely successful Innovative Ideas Forum on 19 April.

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This is a blog which started in 2007 when I was standing for election as vice president of ALIA (the Australian Library and Information Association) - to communicate with members and canvas issues. It also continued during my year as president, which ended in May 2009.

It morphed into a more general blog, and I used it to communicate on a variety of issues - libraries, copyright, the internet, but particularly, just words. Over time, it became a blog mainly about language.

It lapsed in 2012 but I have decided to revive it, and it will be about language and maybe sometimes some other things. Neologisms are unavoidable and an endless source of interest and fun. Talking with a bilingual person, and attempting to learn a language, I have also become more vividly aware of the confusing strangeness of many idioms. I will post about idioms later.

Please promote it to your friends. My short-term goal is to attract a second follower, but I have longer term goals too.

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Tuesday, 24 April 2007

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