-Has anyone thought there might have been three girls riding bicycles down the street at one point yesterday, and that maybe, *maybe* these three people happened to see them all?
- It's not the chain letter, and the best thing about all of this is that it's not collusion either. It's just organic meme-growth. It looked like an interesting thing to do (post exactly the same thing as someone else - it was already replicated once when I saw it anyway), particularly as it is such a "personal" experience. When I came to it, and it was only on two sites, I already knew that I wasn't going to be able to tell which one of them had the "genuine experience" - and so I followed my instincts and decided that it being genuine was completely irrelevant. And so I posted it as well. Lots of other people obviously felt the same way, because it's all over the place now. I know this sounds like a bizarre comment, but I kind of think it's the most interested thing I have seen happen in weblogging in months. Can't really explain why.Jack at saturn.org thinks that I reposted because I am malevolent, and wanted to take the piss out of Jason, which couldn't be further from the truth. That's it, really...posted by barbelith yeah there could be sth interesting to say about this but no one did ~? replicating an entry in what context? (I don't feel I know enough what people were thinking of these personal blogs, this was sort of more of a heyday, in 2000, at least for the Alist phenomenon ~? and so is there an expectation that personal blogging was essentially original? well no because the links are all about replicating, but to post a first person anecdote with no context - now this is just my type of thing, but it is different on a website where every other "I" meant tom coates...
- Editing note: the above post should read "In case y'all haven't noticed, this cloning of blog entries about little girls on bicycles is making fun of blogging, journaling, and personal narrative in general." The way it presently reads, my previous post sounds like I'm saying "In case y'all haven't noticed, this metafilter comment I'm leaving right now is making fun of blogging, journaling, and personal narrative in general." That is not the case. I am endeavoring to make fun of the thing that's making fun of you. posted by ZachsMind 7:39 AM (2nd Mefi thread)
y6, i get what you're saying. but "welcome to the web?" dude, a tiny circle of webloggers is not the web.the web, like the internet, is an earth-moving change in how people communicate, who gets to communicate, who controls "the truth." there are people in prison for speaking their minds online. what are we doing with our freedom? to squander this gift in trivialities is a tragic mistake.now i know why this whole thing bugs me. thanks for helping me clarify that.posted by Zeldman
toward end k is ~ew pissy -and Barblth responds and I'm totally with him. geez k.
both, to my interst, actually share some quality -that I only am seeing now in B, had not seen on Plstcbg but I don't read that much -anyway the quality is probably exactly one that age and experience would diminish. naivete? sth to do w/ youth... it turns me off of someone's writing - melodramtic, or, better, just not subtle. stimes quite off where