This is a bit of a web 2.0 experiment for me. By that I mean the use of the various social networking web applications such as this, twitter, tumblr, facebook, myspace etc. as opposed to just the technical web 2.0 stuff like AJAX, prototype, script.aculo.us ruby on rails, etc.
Perhaps i'll just give it a 30 day time limit (Morgan Spurlock style) because frankly it's making me feel extremely self conscious and revoltingly narcissistic. I'm become a self stalker. No one reads this blog, my twittering or my tumbleblog because I haven't told anyone about them. So i'm alternating between living my life and then describing myself living my life. The description takes time so i'd more accurately describe my life by just describing the description.
What would philosophers like Bauldrillard and Derrida make of this technology (assuming they're not dead). Does it relate to their speculation about 'simulacra'?
It'll be obvious to most that the element i'm missing is the 'social' from social networking. I don't have any friends who know about my twittering or tumblr blogging. Very few know about this blog.
I'm graph consisting of one node and no arcs. Perhaps, even worse, a node with one arc. Maybe there are others like me. Perhaps there are many of us. Perhaps we are the majority. How would we ever know?
Disconnected people unite!
Unfortunately, that would annihilate the one thing we'd have in common.
4 comments:
Don't worry no-one reads my blog either. Well, actually Evan does. And I'm the only person that reads his. Maybe you could join our club? It would drastically improve all of our readership.
actually i also read ev's blog - so already we have a small cluster
If a tree falls in the forrest, and there is no one there to hear it, does it make any sound?
If you blog, and no one reads it, does it exist?
You can go into the forrest and see the tree that fell 10 years ago, and learn what it was.
What will we (you) learn from your blog 10 years from now.
sound is really a perceptual phenomenon (as opposed to the physical vibration of air) so i would say that unattended trees that fall do not make any sound.
as for what we (or i) will learn from this blog in 10 years. it's too soon to be entirely sure but i suspect this blog will not have a positive influence on my immortality.
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