So this is blogging...

I've been meaning to start a blog for quite some time now, but I'm never quite sure what it is I want to write about. You see, I am not a writer. I'm an information scientist.

What is an information scientist exactly? It's someone who looks at all the information that is being collected about us in the world and tries to make sense of it. Information Scientists are the people who work with designers to make interfaces intuitive. Information Scientists are the people who find out what exactly it is to do with the Tera-bytes of trivial minutia collected every time you buy a pack of gum at Target. Information Scientists are people who help turn data into information and help to convey that information in a way so that it can be internalized and turned into knowledge. From there it is up to you, dear reader, to take that knowledge and transform it into wisdom.

What's all this have to do with my blog? I hope it means, that I can begin to make heads or tails of all the stuff that is put out there by other Tacomans in their blogs and convert it into an outside perspective of someone who view the world through their "eyes" or words. It'll be a journey, and a conversation, and maybe we'll learn a little something about Seattle and ourselves in the process.