tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861874.post2039819821211493281..comments2024-01-08T13:44:54.771-08:00Comments on Dizgraceland: BlogaversaryTimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07838683246636045823noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861874.post-39198648449764419532008-09-22T16:09:00.000-07:002008-09-22T16:09:00.000-07:00Kat,It is funny how the bits and pieces of people'...Kat,<BR/>It is funny how the bits and pieces of people's ordinairy lives can be so interesting. There are times that I have thought of some of my blog friends as extended family.Timehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07838683246636045823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861874.post-51881292257021943252008-09-22T15:28:00.000-07:002008-09-22T15:28:00.000-07:00For me it's like the dozens of pen pals I had as a...For me it's like the dozens of pen pals I had as a kid. I look forward to hearing what everyone's up to, even the mundane, just like I looked forward to that mailbox full of letters. I think I missed being the local cat lady but just a hair.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861874.post-90983300862118271852008-09-21T13:13:00.000-07:002008-09-21T13:13:00.000-07:00Ah. Thus your mention of the signal to noise ratio...Ah. Thus your mention of the signal to noise ratio problem. That's an interesting thing to observe in the blog format because unlike newsgroups or web based discussion boards it's pretty segmented. In some ways the problem is simplified in the blog format because one can sift through subject matter relatively quickly.R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03774469060066226829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861874.post-68862934565588259822008-09-21T09:07:00.000-07:002008-09-21T09:07:00.000-07:00R. My point is exactly that. I'm not talking about...R. My point is exactly that. I'm not talking about blog technology, but the new ways people can use it. It provides potential where there was none before to express emotions, feelings, thoughts and share them with millions instantly. If Van Gogh had been slapping palm prints on a cave walk I don't think his work would have reached out to as many people.Timehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07838683246636045823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861874.post-46087707802430396142008-09-21T06:53:00.000-07:002008-09-21T06:53:00.000-07:00I guess my point is that people personify the medi...I guess my point is that people personify the medium and then try to apply human emotions and rules to it based on the meaning they derived from the contents stored in the medium.<BR/><BR/>When I say "Oil Paint" I don't think of Van Gogh (actually I remember the smell of linseed oil.) When I see one of Van Gogh's paintings I think of the painting and its subject.<BR/><BR/>Van Gogh is considered great because he successfully used the medium differently. If he was born to a stone mason I wonder if he'd have been chiseling out impressionist statues?R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03774469060066226829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861874.post-14373784690728739482008-09-20T20:50:00.000-07:002008-09-20T20:50:00.000-07:00R. And the canvas a Van Gogh painting is painted o...R. And the canvas a Van Gogh painting is painted on is just some cloth stretched on a wood frame primed so it will retain powdered color pigments mixed with oils. <BR/><BR/>You must get your literal nature from your mother's side of the family.Timehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07838683246636045823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7861874.post-23588737324882199452008-09-20T14:11:00.000-07:002008-09-20T14:11:00.000-07:00Well, some would say that the blog was an evolutio...Well, some would say that the blog was an evolution of sorts to the .plan file. The .plan file harks back to the UNIX days when you'd use a program called finger to find out the status of a user on a local or remote machine. Part of the output of finger would be the contents of the .plan file in the user's home directory. Users would write whatever was (un)useful to be publicly known in the .plan file.<BR/><BR/>I don't know why some expect the blog to be a phenomena or a... I dunno, whatever. It's just a database that stores text, pictures and movies which is accessed and displayed by a web interface. Like the .plan file of yore, users put whatever they'd like in it. <BR/><BR/>8=====o - - - (.)(.)R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03774469060066226829noreply@blogger.com