tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post5063610895090056956..comments2024-03-16T21:03:05.280+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: EndingsGiovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-35295205712581501242012-01-23T02:14:59.438+13:002012-01-23T02:14:59.438+13:00Maybe Blogs are just electronic thoughts, created ...Maybe Blogs are just electronic thoughts, created and dissipated in an instant. Maybe Blogs are about the Blogger not the Blog-reader. Maybe Blogs are to be ignored, aspired to or surpassed with freedom of choice. Thank you for an interesting Blog :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-71936551489199069902012-01-12T22:12:49.661+13:002012-01-12T22:12:49.661+13:00What is it about this kind of destruction that'...<i>What is it about this kind of destruction that's striking a chord with you?</i><br /><br />I tried to say it in a few different ways, I think I'm not quite getting the point across - which is why I think I'll try to tackle this in a post. It's a line I've pursued before and that I'll continue to pursue over time.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-90042448121182964392012-01-12T11:27:09.354+13:002012-01-12T11:27:09.354+13:00Perhaps, or maybe it's not on you to come up w...Perhaps, or maybe it's not on you to come up with all the answers, and the dialectic found in your comments threads does a big part of that job. To unblog kills that dialectic too.<br /><br />I don't think it's wrong of you to raise this topic, it's very much worth discussing. Some of it is as much psychological as philosophical (and how can the two ever really be separated, sinceBen Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015337296196701141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-60972745149032253662012-01-12T10:59:35.513+13:002012-01-12T10:59:35.513+13:00and then made a bonfire in her backyard with them,...<i>and then made a bonfire in her backyard with them, it wouldn't fill me with any kind of joy at her powerful statement. It would seem like a shocking, tragic waste.</i><br /><br />I don't need to speak hypothetically on this one. When merc deleted LIAS it <i>did</i> make sad. I also thought it was an incredibly poignant gesture. That is the extent of what I'm trying to say - that Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-85600811695440601572012-01-12T10:52:58.125+13:002012-01-12T10:52:58.125+13:00Ultimately, I think it's certainly a powerful ...Ultimately, I think it's certainly a powerful statement to unblog. But I can't say it makes me feel really happy when it happens. Lots of people opting to do it speaks to me of large scale disillusionment with themselves and what they have done.<br /><br />I know a few artists and poets. If I had found out that old Vivian Ballantyne (as one whose art I saw a lot, being friends with her Ben Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015337296196701141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-64281489531313640012012-01-11T23:18:22.591+13:002012-01-11T23:18:22.591+13:00Are you irritated by the Oxford comma? It's be...Are you irritated by the Oxford comma? It's because you haven't come across the Milan comma yet, friend.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-48228593345222896982012-01-11T23:16:53.832+13:002012-01-11T23:16:53.832+13:00Commas, there are so many.Commas, there are so many.Cliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13177119197895224081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-69001563729828194332012-01-11T13:07:34.524+13:002012-01-11T13:07:34.524+13:00One tweet Pete is now a hero of mine.
thoone, not...One tweet Pete is now a hero of mine.<br /><br />thoone, not the only one.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424066726955708314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-89634582038852167162012-01-11T13:04:58.446+13:002012-01-11T13:04:58.446+13:00I also feel that over-painting sits well in this b...I also feel that over-painting sits well in this blog deletion context, and indeed editing poems.<br />I was a one-take guy. One take poems (still do), drawings (taking a class now) and paintings (fraught). I thought of it like surfing a wave, one wave, draw my lines upon it, go get another one.<br />Then I discovered over painting. When the canvas painted is painted over. I did this once and it Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424066726955708314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-85162821723078840552012-01-11T12:13:53.378+13:002012-01-11T12:13:53.378+13:00(And I just as I write that, Twitter throws up One...(And I just as I write that, Twitter throws up <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/OneTweetPete" rel="nofollow">One Tweet Pete</a>. Glorious.)Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-20592126504408008722012-01-11T12:08:27.805+13:002012-01-11T12:08:27.805+13:00Probably. I wasn't sure why you raised Gordon ...<i>Probably. I wasn't sure why you raised Gordon Bell in this context, presumed it was as an exemplar of just how pointless it would be to collect ALL data flowing into the senses of person, and how that displays some kind of bizarre fear of mortality that we are trending towards.<br /><br />But we were discussing blogs, which are not like that. Since a blog is mostly writings, which are Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-32436415976036504932012-01-11T11:41:04.149+13:002012-01-11T11:41:04.149+13:00Haha, your posts are not one word too many.
"...Haha, your posts are not one word too many.<br />"On a macrocosmic level, the consciousness of living—the dim awareness that we are alive for a moment on this planet as it spins, meaninglessly, around the cold and infinite galaxy—gives human beings "the status of a small god in nature," according to Ernest Becker: "Yet, at the same time, as the Eastern sages also knew, man is Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424066726955708314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-19221396396200804792012-01-11T11:30:42.673+13:002012-01-11T11:30:42.673+13:00Friend, if you start apologising for the long comm...Friend, if you start apologising for the long comments I'll have to start apologising for the long post, which is just not going to happen. <br /><br /><i>There is something in his life experience that makes him take the world as a problem;</i><br /><br />I wonder if this is true of writing in general.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-5780128580158662512012-01-11T10:38:29.897+13:002012-01-11T10:38:29.897+13:00Reblogging is the purest form of blogging. Johanne...Reblogging is the purest form of blogging. Johannes Rand<br />I found this here, http://thisisnthappiness.com/page/2<br />These sort of blogs kind of fascinate me, there are many of them, they seem to reblog as a personal statement. Some is NSFW, http://ffffound.com - Tumblr is part of this phenomenon. At first i didn't know what to think, then I was affronted, now I just multi-task (term we Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424066726955708314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-42300975564369061392012-01-11T10:18:06.288+13:002012-01-11T10:18:06.288+13:00I think we may be at cross purposes
Probably. I w...<i>I think we may be at cross purposes</i><br /><br />Probably. I wasn't sure why you raised Gordon Bell in this context, presumed it was as an exemplar of just how pointless it would be to collect ALL data flowing into the senses of person, and how that displays some kind of bizarre fear of mortality that we are trending towards.<br /><br />But we were discussing blogs, which are not like Ben Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015337296196701141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-42384852588491060712012-01-11T09:51:53.802+13:002012-01-11T09:51:53.802+13:00Res blogitans occurs at that peculiar nexus of ele...<i>Res blogitans occurs at that peculiar nexus of electrons, data, learning, human attention/inattention, and a vast and almost unknowable physical infrastructure that is the interwebs.</i><br /><br />I think you've pretty much answered the question there. It exists in that nexus, as do most other forms of electronic writing, but is also temporally organised (in spite of the lack of duration)Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-59614582795009163692012-01-11T07:32:56.742+13:002012-01-11T07:32:56.742+13:00Just a quick musing on your idea that blogs have n...Just a quick musing on your idea that blogs have no duraton:<br /><br />I've long wondered about the ontological status of online/electronic communications in general. Quite a bit less res extensa, quite a bit more res cogitans, don't you think? If the blog as such has zero duration, it certainly can't be the former.<br /><br />What, then, is res blogitans, if you'll forgive theTurklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03005003699345988361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-21299783318977491342012-01-11T00:26:56.734+13:002012-01-11T00:26:56.734+13:00I don't think you're particularly 'con...I don't think you're particularly 'conservative' with the form. I don't think Evan was either. It may relate to much older forms of (non-academic) essay-writing, but it still falls outside the main uses (IMO) for blogging:<br />Semi-academic essays.<br />Amateur opinion columns.<br />MSM news linking.<br />Life diaries (be it political activities, travel or pets).<br />David K Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10756535951359716522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-25173421846291240262012-01-10T18:46:29.842+13:002012-01-10T18:46:29.842+13:00As for the end of blogging, there is always going ...<i>As for the end of blogging, there is always going to writing on the internet, whether it's called "blogging" or not.</i><br /><br />Quite true. And the word blog, as Amanda also suggested, may well have an excessively large field of application at this time.<br /><br /><i>I'm also a big fan of Tumblr. I don't think Tumblr is taken very seriously at the moment because it&#Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-78343017177338965932012-01-10T18:38:39.203+13:002012-01-10T18:38:39.203+13:00Sure, but that's a straw man. A blog is not &q...<i>Sure, but that's a straw man. A blog is not "all of me" either. But it could have been a very important part of me, indeed in terms of things I said and thought it could be one of the most important parts.</i><br /><br />I think we may be at cross purposes: I was referring to whole life recordings a-la Gordon Bell, which is a fitting analogy to my mind to a tendency in social Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-77465723884815342132012-01-10T18:05:40.124+13:002012-01-10T18:05:40.124+13:00I've been blogging for over 15 years, but I ha...I've been blogging for over 15 years, but I haven't blogged since last Friday. To paraphrase that old showbiz saying - you're only as good as your last blog.<br /><br />Twitter changed the way I blog. Twitter sucks up all my short thoughts, and is sometimes where the idea behind a blog post starts.<br /><br />I'm also a big fan of Tumblr. I don't think Tumblr is taken very Robynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278675946018423652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-21609503284541480952012-01-10T15:05:10.235+13:002012-01-10T15:05:10.235+13:00They don’t just leave a recorder on and say here, ...<i>They don’t just leave a recorder on and say here, take all of me. </i><br /><br />Sure, but that's a straw man. A blog is not "all of me" either. But it could have been a very important part of me, indeed in terms of things I said and thought it could be one of the most important parts.<br /><br /><i>I don’t see it as a progress that we all warrant such records nowadays. I think Ben Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015337296196701141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-14488194394577692732012-01-10T13:57:29.398+13:002012-01-10T13:57:29.398+13:00Sure, but that is not the only purpose of keeping ...<i>Sure, but that is not the only purpose of keeping data, that it will be replayed in its entirety. Often you only want a piece of it, but you can't know in advance which piece. You also can't know who in the future might want to know besides yourself. Your children, perhaps? Their children?</i><br /><br />We know that that’s not how it works. Terminally ill parents often choose to leaveGiovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-12471999993630475302012-01-10T13:51:48.240+13:002012-01-10T13:51:48.240+13:00@merc
Blogs seem to very much fall into this need...@merc<br /><br /><i>Blogs seem to very much fall into this need we seem to have to selectively forget our mortality, to rank ourselves on some hero list. We are told to be concerned with rankings every day, when that gets too much, we forget them.<br /></i><br /><br />This really is the same for any kind of writing, and always has been, and indeed it's probably a motivation behind oral Ben Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015337296196701141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-74238469259820455492012-01-10T13:28:48.362+13:002012-01-10T13:28:48.362+13:00And what that conduct leaves is an impossibly vast...<i>And what that conduct leaves is an impossibly vast mass of data (strickly in the sense of ‘dumb information’) to wade through.</i><br /><br />Sure, but that is not the only purpose of keeping data, that it will be replayed in its entirety. Often you only want a piece of it, but you can't know in advance which piece. You also can't know who in the future might want to know besides Ben Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015337296196701141noreply@blogger.com