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I've been thinking of blogging more and and more as peripheralized thought, one step farther than the sort of peripheralizing we do when we write anything down--with paper notes, with laptopped thoughts, with ink scrawled on skin.
One step farther because its spatial marginalization is more pronounced: this blog, yes, is as accessible to me as most other notes in my bookbag, but its contents actually exist on a server in a highrise office complex in Hong Kong.
Now, this spatial pheripheralization is normally invisible. (So-to-speak; of course, all bits and bytes are, right?) But like dark matter affecting change in the physical world, sometimes real effects are felt. This weekend, my laptop again went kaput (the 5th time in 7 months, but that's a rant for a different day!). Fortunately, though, I've been keeping my work on my examination lists on the blog instead of in, say, a Word file on my hard drive; so while images, music, financial records and emails are in a state of limbo right now, most of my important work is safe.
I've considered writing the majority of my dissertation in Moveable Type, at least in preliminary stages. I think my laptop's "episode" this weekend has solidified that decision for me...
Posted by brandon barr at January 27, 2003 09:55 AM | TrackBack