This weblog is shutting down for the winter, there’s about 30 things in the drafts folder and I can’t seem to finish anything. I’m working on a couple of ideas for new formats but they’re unlikely to surface until my birthday for a variety of reasons to boring to go into (that’s never stopped you before! (haha)). Anyway here’s what’s in the drafts folder, can you guess what they’re about?
- The Opposite
- Lazy Types [possibly the nerdiest thing I’ve ever written]
- Big Numbers [or maybe that was this one]
- Second Consecutive Day On The Tube
- People Who Don’t Understand Technology Trying to Explain how Things Work
- Naming Conventions
- Ruby Mon Amour
- links for 2006-04-25
- links for 2006-04-24
- links for 2006-04-23
- links for 2006-04-22
- links for 2006-04-19
- Video Games
- Dennett vs Jay Z
- Shrinking space
- Game aesthetics
- favourite videos
- Rant
- Web 2.0
- science of hits
- Games that I like and those that I don’t like
- Lint
- Boggle
- OK, Lets Do This. Top 100 part 1 [well that idea when well didn’t it]
- A Wizard of Earthsea
- archipelagos
- The bubble is back
- Serenity
- Disgaea [i’ve been trying to write this one for ages]
- london games
- games vs stories
The problem I find is that the format sort of makes it seem like what your saying is a fixed opinon and it’s gogin to be there as a statement of youtr position for however long the databse is online, that’s also somehow priveliged regardless of content because of its relationship to the comments section etc…
Anyway, byex.
And then lish said:
Any opinion given on “Web 2.0″ is pretty much irrelevant by the time it has finished being written, the relevant again just after everyone has read it, so I can understand that one staying the drafts. Plus I can imagine it conjuring up so much hatred in you that you wouldn’t be able to write without swearing a lot.
Try not giving opinions on your weblog! Like me! Nobody reads it but you can post pictures of yourself getting drunk! Hooray!
And then tom said:
And then Neil said:What a mighty flaggon!
And then tom said:nah, i was just smaller then
And then nick talbot said:The winter is quite a long time. Like Lish I’ve now tried to avoid expressing serious opinions altogether in my blog. Now everyone has got over the initial wonder of being able to expose their erudite views to the whole world, only to find that nobody cares, you see how the poor political pundit feels. Backed into a corner, too proud to change their view on Iraq
And then nick talbot said:(hold on, i hadn’t finished) cringeing at last year’s bellicose take on local explosions, Melanie Phillips clutching onto the last glacier, still insisting that the case for climate change has not yet been made… I’ve just gone through deleting serious argument from my blog. I’m all wet for Dennett vs Jay Z. And London games.
And then nick talbot said:and at the bottom of my inbox I’ve got an interview request from back in february.
And then tom said:Initially when i started doing a blog in like 2000 or whenever it was, when i was at the BBC the first time, my idea was that it was mainly going to be pictures I’d drawn or programs i’d written but then the form kind of takes over and you find your entire creative output is about linking to other peoples links. Despite all the stuff about blogs being a great platform for free expression they’re actually fairly limiting in terms of form; an excellent example of how software constrains the things you can produce and at some level your thought process (c.f. the cognitive style of Powerpoint). I much prefer writing in the comments section where it’s kind of a bit hidden but also we’re all kind of on the same level and it’s more like a conversation (did anyone ever really buy the blogs as conversation line? very odd conversation if they did).
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