Babies and blogging

Any day in the next couple of weeks I will become a father for the first time. I’ve been told countless times that it will change my life, but I think I’ll have to experience it to understand… My wife and the soon-to-be mother is the adorable Victoria Buckley. She is an extremely talented jewellery designer, with a shop and fabulous collection of pieces that draw on many inspirations, including fairy tales, myths, and legends. Victoria’s landmark outlet is in Sydney’s Strand Arcade, with clients worldwide, and exports to top-end retailers in the US and elsewhere on the cards. It’s been very interesting to me that Victoria’s and my work, while they may seem to be very different, are actually highly aligned. Archetypes, meaning, and communication are common threads in both of our work, and we find much to share in insights between our businesses.

I will soon enough find out how becoming a father impacts my blogging. I have never been quite as active a blogger as I’d like, with urgent work commitments daily often coming before my desire to blog on interesting things I’m seeing or doing. However with the Future of Media Summit now out of the way, and baby on the way, I’m deliberately creating space for myself, so it’s possible that between changing nappies and earning a living I’ll be able to blog a little more than I’ve been able to so far this year. Writing a blog post is a nicely packaged, manageable task. I doubt Trends in the Living Networks will become a baby blog, but expect a few references to babies along the way…