Strange Days
My nascent blogging life gets stranger all the time. First, I find that I’m locked into a sort of blogging exchange with a girl I prodded this weekend. Then, while googling the title of this blog, I discovered the Naked Loft Party has already spawned a semi-parody site. I’m less certain of where this project is headed than when I started. As I sit here pondering the electronic popularity contest that is the blogging world, I can’t help but wonder why most people bother with it at all. Public journaling is enough of a conceit as is, but at some point you’ve crossed that line into public attention-whoring which is by now so familiar in the mainstream world; you’ve become so enmeshed in the game of publish-and-response that there’s no getting back to the integrity of the original project. Biroco opines: “People want to connect with each other on the web, but they don’t. There’s always the potential, but it seems you’ve got to be bigger than it, all the time, because otherwise like it says in the Yijing you’re hunting game in a place where there is none.” I’m wondering whether I’ve bitten off more than I can chew.
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