If I'd lived a hundred years ago, I might have been described (by polite people) as having some of the traits of a "renaissance man". Nowadays, I'm just a juggler of many things. I'm a generalist, with all the negative connotations that seem to go with that phrase.
I ended up with a career doing web stuff for this very reason. I'm half arty, half sciencey. I'm as excited by music, writing and art as I am by geekery, markup and databases. The web - or at least the bit of it that I tend to inhabit - is a perfect place to bring all of those things together. It's about technical stuff surfacing and enabling the content and the connections underneath, or at least it should be.
The field that I've chosen is inhabited by people who live, breathe, work, and die as geeks. We're a community of people whose work is also our hobby. And I've always found the label a bit constricting - to be called "just" a geek isn't enough for me. My entire motivation behind getting involved in this stuff is not the geekery. Much as I love geekery, it's essentially wanking: on its own, it's not for anyone but you. The real people - the people whose lives you can touch and change with the technology - they're the important factor.
Sorry. I almost went off on a rant then. What I'm saying is that I do web stuff and other stuff:
Some sites I run / designed / write for / built / strategis[ed] about...
...now
> er...this one...(and my personal variousbits blog)
> Electronic Museum
> The PSG blog
> Mashed Museum
> Stufflinker
> OneTag
> BathCamp
...while Head of Web at NMSI...
> The Science Museum, London [ran..built up...re-designed...strategised...]
> The Dana Centre [ran...strategised...visioned...]
> Ingenious [conceptualised...tendered...launched...]
> Making the Modern World [guided...]
> Launchball [conceptualised...] *winner of SXSW 2008 - read about the project
Non-web creative majubbins...
> The Dead Lovers - a band I was in a while backWriting
> Electronic Museum [my other blog, in which I talk about museums, innovation and the social web ]
> DadTwo [so infrequent as to be pretty much discontinued, but my thoughts on being a dad for the second time]
> The novel [I'm writing one. Slowly. Keep watching this space for at least a decade...]
Ideas
I recently decided that my head was too full to keep all the ideas in there, so set them free on my personal wiki ...
People
Getting people together is good fun, and deeply satisfying.
Together with some other fine people, I put together Bath's first BarCamp in 2008 (BathCamp, obviously) and have since been running evening events for web people to come along, talk and share ideas. You're welcome, anytime. See http://bathcamp.org for details
More
> You might be interested in my publications, papers, presentations page on my Electronic Museum blog. I'm usually up for speaking, writing or whatever, so if you're arranging something, just let me know.
> My slides are generally on my Slideshare page
> And I've obviously also got a LinkedIn profile , too