One more weblog discovery: Piers Young, Monkeymagic – thought-provoking and fun writing on creativity and thinking (also revealing that the author seems to like tea :) Between other things – do “question memes” travel the same way as “answer memes”?
A comment to my note that “the microcontent nature of weblogs is an important component of the mix that makes them so powerful”:
Which made me think that in many ways weblogs are like the blurb on the backs of books. They offer a quick, personalised insight into a bigger piece of content.
Which in turn made me wondering what are those “bigger pieces of content” touch while reading weblogs? Our bigger canvas? Ourselves?
Sometimes I feel that weblogs are “blurbs on the backs of books” without books themselves. I read a “blurb”, get interested, but I hardly get an opportunity to read the “book”: weblogs provide many “blurbs” about our bigger canvas and hidden agendas without making them explicit.
Weblogs are good as personal profiles, but the impression they give, although very much holistic, is still difficult to put in explicit words. It’s like an abstract art – you can get the meaning from a few lines, but it’s difficult to explain explicitly and you are never sure that this “clear picture” that you have inside is the one that the artist had in mind.
I guess I’m trying to explain something I can’t explain yet :)
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