I’ve been doing a terrible job at posting to M2M because i’m never quite sure what fraction of my posts belong here and what tone is appropriate. I’ve been actively posting to my personal blog apophenia and looking back, i…

I continue to be amazed how we are so very much on the same wavelength. I was speaking with Mary Hodder yesterday re how I despise the thinking that proposes all blogging is journalism. Sure–tell that to the many, many people who are on LJ and do not consider their simple entries journalism but rather expressions of identity and that to make their blogs searchable is a violation of that identity.

I would counter, though, that those who believe their information based blogs are static rather than organic are not conscious of the evolution of their own personnas. Nothing we enter and project a portion of our personna into can be static. Even obsessive information gatherers are in the process of personna projection and their blogs reflect this. They are far more ephemeral than they perhaps believe themselves to be.

Mary and also agreed that things age in the blogyears kind of like dog years. The ageing is contingent on the developments of technology and the human fascination with these developments that causes one to turn away from something quicker than one might in the off-line world. The blogosphere is a land of short attention spans