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About me & royby.com

I'm Roy Hornsby and since 2002 royby.com has been both my personal and research blog. The earliest entry I can locate on the Internet Archives is orphaned from any style sheet (was I using CSS then?? I doubt it) and was posted by me on September 26 2002 at 6.24am where I very naively rubbished Rebecca Blood for writing a book about Weblogging. There are earlier entries but the archives don't have records of them.

Originally I built "a weblog about weblogging" as an assessment item for Communication & Cyber Theory at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. Back then I was mainly interested in the technology associated with Weblogs (still am). I was fascinated by the concept of being able to post up-to-date information through a form onto an otherwise static Web site. I used blogging software developed by Noah Grey called Greymatter which was an excellent CGI based app., but I was soon lured to change to some app. utilising PHP and a mySQL database and pMachine was my choice. Ellis Labs discontinued development on pMachine back in 2004. It only took me until very late in 2009 to catch up and migrate to their new baby, ExpressionEngine. The migration was synchronised nicely with the release of EE version 2, but hey... give me a break, I'm still getting used to version 1!

I have been running two main blogs since late 2002. "royby.com" has been where I've recorded my life issues, travels and items that I've found of interest. "a weblog about weblogging" has remained true to it's name and is still used to report on the world of blogging and related technologies, though I admit there was a long period of time when I didn't devote any time to blogging research. Other things caught my attention and life has been otherwise too interesting.

My BA honours degree dissertation is entitled, "Presentation of the self and the desire to belong on a digital terrain: An investigation into the phenomenon that is weblogging". (Aren't dissertation titles maddeningly long and just a bit on the snotty side?) This was successfully completed with the School of Arts, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. Currently I'm undertaking a research higher degree as a PhD scholar through the UQ Graduate School and the School of Political Science & International Studies in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at The University of Queensland. My research is focused on the social and civic influences of Internet usage among urban youth in Viet Nam. (Including their use of blogs of course)

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