Dear infodoodaders:

You may have noticed that over the past few months our posting frequency has taken a sharp decline. Two of us have had babies, one of us just finished grad school, another few are knee-deep in the tenure process and goodness knows what else. You may think to yourself “is infodoodads dead? what’s going on?” This is something we recently considered amongst ourselves. However, we all enjoy infodoodads and miss writing. It isn’t yet time to let go.

Let us share with you our vision of the infodoodads to come. Instead of unconnected daily posts we are going to bring to you month-long conversations around a central theme. The deluge of web 2.0 in years past has begun to lose momentum and we think it is time to change our focus and purpose accordingly. Our monthly themes will be broader than a single tool and consider more of the why’s, how’s, who’s, what’s, where’s, and when’s. We invite you to participate in more than a “wow, neat tool, thanks!” sort of way (although that is still fully welcome!), but contribute to the dialogue we hope to inspire. For those of you with a bit more to say than short comments, we will welcome guest posts.

Please mark your calendars for February 1 and look forward to our first theme of the new infodoodads! Hint, it’s about video!

The infodoodads team