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September 16, 2013
Looking over "the doomfiles" project, and comparing
it to other things that have appeared over the net
in the intervening years, it's interesting how much
I anticipated...
The unrestricted range of subject matter, veering
between personal, political, art and literature.
Many of the posts are very heavy on quotation,
with only small amounts of original commentary;
a format popular in the early "blogosphere". I've never succeeded
in inventing any
I lead off with what amounts to terminology quite as
an "under construction" message stupid and ugly as
(an early fad that's thankfully died): "blogosphere", though.
TOP (I'm better at
pretentious than
silly.)
On thing that remains unique with the doomfiles
is the graphical layout of chunks of text
(and fixed width text at that... but that's
just a technical limitation of the way I've
done it thus far-- html PRE tags-- I wouldn't
call that a requirement).
The early nodes-- to use doomfiles
terminology, rather than the web's "pages"--
have more explication of basic information,
which I think was also the case of early The fact that wikipedia
web pages... that's something that's fallen does a "good enough"
off with the success of wikipedia. job of recording and
displaying basic
information is both
very useful and yet
also something of a
trap: if we're not
writing things when we
feel we're in wikipedia
Still, I put in a fair amount territory, we're
of work *explaining myself*, surrendering quite a
trying to get across ideas lot...
that in retrospect (and perhaps
not only in retrospect) seem
rather obvious.
When I realize that someone else
out there is saying something
much like what I've been trying
to say-- well that used to seem
disapointing, but I've long
since gotten used to it-- it
does, however make me wonder why
I'm bothering to pin things down
many other people will get (or
maybe have gotten already).
Laboriously working through your ideas for
an essentially non-existant audience is
crazy enough, but doing it when you never
seem to push beyond the range of what
everyone else can do, that seems pretty
useless.
I wonder if I may be
holding myself back
on some level with
this explication for
an imaginary audience.
If you worry a lot about addressing the
current state of knowledge and opinion,
you may unconsciously restrict yourself
to it.
In a way, it would be better if I
were more egocentric: typically, my
imaginary audience is someone who
came in in the middle who hasn't
heard a single thing I've said
over the last several decades.
Everything I write begins anew,
and starts again from zero.
An old thought with me:
invent an imaginary
character to talk to.
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What would happen if
I invented a fan that
dotes on every word,
and doesn't need to
be filled in on anything...
My current "push" is almost the
opposite: I'm finishing up
more-or-less readable material that
has been sitting around for years;
and often it was left waiting
because I thought it was all too
redundant, too similar to stuff
I've said already.
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