tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post3984357946390335400..comments2024-02-11T12:24:26.294-08:00Comments on The Compass Rose: More Thoughts on Internet IdentityCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-37230784639287097902010-09-26T07:12:46.029-07:002010-09-26T07:12:46.029-07:00I think my blog serves a very unique function for ...I think my blog serves a very unique function for me, since I am trying to bring together two worlds (Lutheranism and surrealism).<br /><br />There's no journal that would otherwise cover such a span.<br /><br />For you, I think you could often publish in more mainstream journals (you ought to work up your piece on bicycles, or your pieces on SF's pitchers' problems, into something more commercial).<br /><br />As for your remarks on poets, I think that is your true mission here, reading very unpopular poets, and doing a rather fragmentary but good job of it.<br /><br />And responding to other blogs.<br /><br />Think less about identity maybe and more about function.<br /><br />There IS an autobiographical side to your writing, but it's generally to discuss how something functions, or doesn't.<br /><br />Functionality in terms of the design of something is where you and I overlap on the Venn.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-23843275141862272402010-09-25T10:44:40.414-07:002010-09-25T10:44:40.414-07:00Dear Anon:
Ah, another chickenshit jerk-off with ...Dear Anon:<br /><br />Ah, another chickenshit jerk-off with time on his hands.<br /><br />I couldn't become a "grandpa" because our only child was killed in an automobile accident in 1996. <br /><br />I'm sure you had my best interests at heart.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-33583860180439241932010-09-25T10:11:49.736-07:002010-09-25T10:11:49.736-07:00Have you perused Pynchon's thoughts on the Net...Have you perused Pynchon's thoughts on the Net and cyberspace, Sir F.? (his "Luddite" essay from like 90s for one). He more or less suggests it will become some massive dystopian or possibly totalitarian technology. <br /><br />I think that's already started--to some extent. With personal private blogs it may not be that obvious but on big name sites--even so-called liberal ones such as <br />d-Kos, DU, salon, etc--the J-Edgarcrats have seized control. Dissent, and you are "troll-rated", which is to say banned, deleted, if not reported to the CIA. And often the trolls are not particularly subversive or radical but...non-PC. Yr not trollrated for content usually or for using obscene language, but for something like tone, manner of speaking, not being "snarky" or something. You're just not invited to the par-tay (and most A-list "liberal" blogs are hosted by east coast/ivy league types)<br /><br />We might read Silliman's recent elimination of comments as symptomatic of this growth of moderation and control at all levels--Snitchness. <br /><br />(this may not be exactly what you are discussing, but related. ).Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-92156971790281038452010-09-25T08:14:24.910-07:002010-09-25T08:14:24.910-07:00So:
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it y...So:<br /><br />We get <br /><br />More-and-More<br />of<br />Less-and-Less<br /><br />it yet follows that the definition of any single moment precedes that definition of how/when it (the event) is it s OWN presentation where in "real" time as defined BURSTS in-to all possible situate ...possibilities..<br />when visited?<br /><br />Not exactly an haiku moment, eh?<br /><br />as Allen Ginsburg once said (an I was sitting right next to him when he said it):<br /><br />"(I write) for those who dig it."Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-35649001783987104512010-09-24T23:53:35.709-07:002010-09-24T23:53:35.709-07:00"Soon, virtual visual interaction is coming, ..."Soon, virtual visual interaction is coming, allowing users to watch each other--literally to look into each other's real physical space--while spending time online."<br /><br />Yeah, it's called the webcam, grandpa.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com