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Evangelizing the importance and use of large information sets, research, and discovery through alternate media forms. Visualizations, interactive installations, video art. Anyone feeling crazy enough to create a position like that? -Sean On 9/28/11 2:12 PM, "Karen Coyle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I think a great question would be: what would you REALLY like to be > doing? And I'm meaning that professionally, not "I'd rather be > sailing/sleeping/drinking a beer." Pretend that the daily niggling > bits of the job are gone and money is no object -- what would you do? > > kc > > Quoting Matt McCollow <[log in to unmask]>: > >> "Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can >> contrive is why not?" - David Foster Wallace >> >> I do what I do because I like learning how things work, taking >> things apart and seeing what makes them tick. I like taking an idea >> I have and making something with it, and I like taking things that >> are broken and making them work. I think if I hadn't gone down the >> developer path, I might have liked to be a mechanic. >> >> Matt McCollow >> Web Developer >> Mills Library, McMaster University >> >> On 2011-09-28, at 1:44 PM, Eric Hellman wrote: >> >>> I think it's a good question, worth asking about *every* dev >>> position being hired for. I would be interested to hear an answer >>> from others on the list. In fact, I think the price of putting a >>> position announcement on Code4lib should be a willingness to answer >>> "why?". And "why not?" is a pretty pathetic answer. >>> >>> For me, I'm doing what I'm doing because I think it's important and >>> because no one else is doing it. I hope there are many other with a >>> similar answer. >>> >>> Eric >> > >