For me this BLOG is also an experiment. I am the one who is typing texts. A kind of one-way communication. In the last years I did do a lot on different forums and yahoo-groups (actually run a few of my own which you can access through www.iuoma.org if you want to). In the forums and groups the reactions are direct. All reactions have the same status as the original message. There is only a moderator who 'controls', or lets things go as time passes by.
On these groups there tends to be a lively discussion (or sometimes a deadly mixture where the group just doesn't work). In this BLOG only comments can be placed, in which the readers can react to what I write, but the comments are somehow hidden.
The first comment was placed (thanks Roy Arenella!), and I even made the URL of my BLOG available at my site. I will see if more comments come in. Are people actually interested in what I write That is the essence of a BLOG. The one that starts it, thinks the words (and links and/or images) are interesting for others. Is this also how I function? At least these comments make some kind of interaction possible.
I will discover soon enough. I enjoy the structure of a BLOG. People can go through my thoughts in a structured way. Actually I am structuring my thoughts here as well, and already discovered that I can archive things easily in files as well.
So the experiment continues and I will see how it goes.
I also experimented at the www.nervousness.org forum, but somehow I didn't felt welcome there. Maybe also because of the attitude I had there. But it must be a mixture of factors. Mail-art is something that is seen by lots of people in a different way. Some consider it as an art-form, some just as a therapy, or real craftswork. Ken FRiedman was the one who compared it to a boy scouts club, but actually was attacked by others for this as well (read the interview that I have online).
So who is to say what mail-art actually is. The defenition changes over the years, and most oldies in the network don't like that.
Ruud
1 comment:
Being a bit of an "oldie"m I appreciate the old ideas but still welcome the new. i dont see why they can't co-exist.
I love the idea of the blog. its free and it can be interacted with through the comments boxes- what could be better. also you can show your mail as it arrives almost! amazing! now if i could only figure out how to post music files i'd be a happy man!
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