Flightless Hypothesis

In the last three or so (plus actually) years I’ve managed to think up and record over 4,000 of these blog entries.

Previously I’ve described all sorts of reasons for doing so.

But now, that’s all redundant. This blog serves two new purposes.

Firstly, I’m looking forward to repurposing these blogs as original prose. All I have to do, in order to write a book, is to treat these blog entries as bricks. I simply have to provide the written cement; which is a much less daunting task than starting from scratch.

Secondly, I’m going to run some Grounded Theory software over the blog.

A study using Grounded Theory can just begin with a collection of qualitative data (my blog).

As the software chews through the blog, repeated ideas, concepts or elements will become apparent, and will be tagged with codes, which will be extracted from the blog.

The software will then magically re-reviews the blog, and the codes will be grouped into concepts, and then into categories.

These categories will become the basis for new theories. On what, nobody knows…

Alternatively, the Grounded Theory results will show that it ain’t got wings. Your choice as to which, the blog or the original sin.