People who read this blog in readers won't see it, but I have changed the look of this blog - the first significant change in over 4 years. The change is long overdue. One reason why I kept that design for so long was that I haven't seen many blogs in yellow and white, and those colours almost seemed like a personal trademark, and so I thought that I might as well keep them. I come across way too many books and articles about branding at MPOW and I wonder if I have absorbed some of those ideas. A blog is a brand of sorts, and it pays to have some consistency of message and look. Of course, stagnation is even worse than lack of consistency. This is a very different blog from what it was four years ago, and it's about time that the look reflected that. For one thing, I now have more posts with images and so it makes sense to have a design which enhances and is enhanced by the graphics. I'm glad that I found a design which has a similar look to the old design, so there is still some consistency.
When I first chose the name of this blog, I thought that the name sounded interesting and was an apt metaphor for what was happening with information and libraries. I was not expecting that the ideas behind this metaphor would continue to develop and evolve and sweep me along with it. At first I was thinking about how I might survive and cope as chaos infiltrated my work as a librarian. Now the chaos is no longer quite so new and scary, and I am thinking about how I can use it and thrive in it.
