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December 3, 2006

ebog o'blivion

"The television screen has become the retina of the mind's eye. For that reason, I refuse to appear on television, except on television. O'Blivion is not the name I was born with. It's my television name. Soon, all of us will have special names, names designed to cause the cathode-ray tube to resonate."

Dr. Brian O'Blivion, from Videodrome

I've been thinking a lot about what to do with this blog, or, more accurately, how to do this blog. I'm not really getting the amount of value I feel like I should be getting from my current blogging habits, which, as currently constructed, mostly allow me to procrastinate from other stuff near endlessly without a commensurate uptick of posting on here. I also have a gut-level feeling that I want to do less essayistic posting about, say, how John McWhorter's entire politic stems from his having been beaten by a girl when he was four, and do more impressionistic/imagistic posting of lists, dreams, spreadsheets, snaps, rips, photoshop gags, and so on. To make matters worse, I'm going to Kenya for a month and I have been desperately trying to figure out how to document that in a non-trad yet nifty way. (Snaps? Uploaded video? GPS google mapping?)

All of which is to say, that while I'm drawn like a moth to certain kinds of android flames, I think that moving forward I'm only going to do certain kinds of blogging in the comment sections of other people's blogs. Doing so is attractive to me on a number of levels, first, of course, being the perverse, Videodrome-ness of the gesture - "for that reason, I refuse to blog, except in blogs!" - and, second, being the kind of slack doing so might cut for ebogjonson.com, hopefully allowing it drift/settle into some other configuration. That new class of "comment post" is going to be linked to from here, but will all come with some as-yet-to-be-determined and recurring formal device, and will also be cross-posed to a new MT category - ebog o'blivion - for the purposes of neat architecture and taxonomy.

The above rule, will, of course, be immediately broken. For one, there are going to be topics that no one has written about first, and there will also be things that won't fit into a comment or a photoshop gag. (That review of Ayiti: Cost of Life that I keep needing to write, for example.) Additionally, I intend to still link to stuff via the del.icio.us box on ebog home, or, maybe, I'll implement the reblog hack instead. (Either way, those of you reading this via feed should subscribe to the new feedburner feed to at very least make sure you get those del.icio.us links in your reader.)

And that's pretty much that. Let's see how it goes, shall we?

Posted by ebogjonson in ebog housekeeping, internet tubes, on December 3, 2006 1:44 PM