What are blogs for? A trip to the beginning. The halcyon days of dot-com idealism and sheer shit-talking.
I’m kind of OK with the sentiment of the p.14 quote from Rebecca Blood – hypertexting helping me find my voice – although yeah it is worded a little like something from a Victorian self-help guide. But I have found blogging and wiki-ing sort of does the things she says. Though I think I would perhaps just describe it as learning, rather than self-growth. The blog/wiki combo is both helping me think more about what I learn *and* learn more about what I think, I’m really digging it.
“h0p3 has a home page entry point that is carefully curated and groomed, but which is several layers up from a complete chaos of link dumps, raw drafts and random introspections […] These layers run a spectrum of accessibility—there is always a learning curve before you hit the bottom. You start with a doorway before entering a maze.”
I’ve noticed my own wiki/commonplace book thingy slowly taking that rough form recently, too, I wonder if it’s a common pattern? I’ve just started making the doorframe.
Cool – I appreciate this clarifying thought. My issue was more with the part
about solidifying opinions – I think my personality needs my opinions to be
plastic. But maybe that fights against self-growth. Like maybe learning should
solidify into opinions…? I really love her contributions to that book
tho – in case it wasn’t clear.
(I’m reading her The Weblog Handbook (2002) right now as well – will probably post
some thoughts on it.)
Huh – well it definitely appears to be a pattern. (Interesting to see @visakanv
do this with Twitter threads – as if
it was his commonplace book.) I don’t think it’s terribly common – but perhaps
becoming more so in our niche.
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