Things left unsaid

I have a habit of starting a blog and not posting. After I reduce all things to a singularity in my head, everything is the same as everything else. One thing is as important as another. Posting is the same as not posting. I have to stop zooming out so far. This is a part of my scope scope being broken.

Ed asked me to explain (in post form) a few blog-related things:

DeadlineWeaving
This is an anagram of Dave, Edwin, and Angeli. I posted a link to the anagram site I used. I was playing around and this arbitrary teapot anagram seemed appropriate.

Blog vs. Message Board
A blog has always seemed so personal to me. You can host your own opinion page, diary, running news commentary, etc. I don’t know if this is a common perception or if that is changing. We’re all use to message boards. We’ve spent so many years on them. There’s no need to touch on its structure.

I think that the structure of this WordPress blog (along with its modularity and plasticity) offers us a different way to think of things and link to things. This is all part of a rhizomatic structure as opposed to being forced falsely into a arborescent model. I think this will suit our habits of drawing parallels and direct connections between projects. This blog offers categories which relate to the poetry board, politics board, etc. at Society. Instead of a physical location, it’s purely virtual for us. In fact, a post can be in more than one category. We can also set up tags for a post on the fly. Both categories and tags are set up in “clouds” in the side pane. We’ll see the cartogram-style words solidify and become a little more helpful as time goes on. There is a calendar that will allow you to look at all posts from a certain day. There is a search bar. You can go through by month. There are many possibilities. They will be available to each of us without doing all of the research to find the one perfect way.

On a side note,
I have actually been waiting for an OS to be built entirely on this principle. I am staring to think that I’ve been looking in the wrong direction, however. You don’t need an OS for that (at least not now, and not in a world still run by Microsoft). This has been happening with Google. If you haven’t looked at their pet projects and their projects that are still in the mill, it’s worth a look. Consider that you can now own a virtual computer. Store your files in your near-bottomless Gmail account, post and edit images with Picasa Web, set up your own web page, update your blog, consult your lists of favorites, and post and edit documents with Google Docs, just for a start. It only takes one log-in to get to everything you need. Carry a thumb drive full of portable apps with you in the increasingly rare case that you access an unconnected computer. The world is changing in ways that fascinate me as much as it changes in the ways that depress me. I don’t spend enough time talking/posting about things like this.