The little one has been busy working on the site. Moved by cajoles, strained by a lack of nicotine and forcefully driven to the arms of unsociability, what’s left of my self is found here.
Little of the old site remains, and what remains has been re-cast in alternative form, in part as a response to the decay of the web; especially the weblog, that intersection of personal space and public forum, continues to transform itself so much so that it challenges writing, perhaps eventually to render writing obsolete.
That possibility has been the biggest force of change. What is the nature of this imperceptible yet tectonic shift? Such is the transformation, it appears blogging does indeed significantly reduce brain size. Surely blogging - and websites in general - is more than the sum of HTML code and CSS dressing; but equally it must be less than the excess of stream-of-consciousness rants that pepper the web.
We’ve known this for some time, of course, at least intuitively and though we are loath to admit it. The more we blog, the dimmer we become. How else to explain this irresistable urge to tap, tap, tap away on our keyboard late into the night regurgitating the minutae of our day’s passing?
To be sure, this is but one aspect of the perennial question: is techonology and technological change always already assimilated into our existing cultural condition, instead of being a motor for a dash of revolution? So what of the future of the blog? This is a question in progress, a work without fixed co-ordinates or a preconceived destination. Love it or loathe it, that’s one item on this site’s agenda.
Let’s go beyond the blog.
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