Comments on: On Blogging Part 4: nexistence and z-axis orientation

By: lelangir

lelangir — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:23:58 +0000

RyanA: Hmm, I don’t think proxies can effectively reach the private sphere. Proxies are real concrete things. The private sphere is cultural. In essence, twitter and back channels are proxies in themselves – trying to proxy a proxy might, at first thought, be redundant and not effective. I think that, insofar as this becomes a cultural matter, using technology itself won’t work because technology hasn’t caught up with society and its culture. Omo has pointed this out in his more thorough investigation of google reader. Essentially, I think we must challenge culture with culture, engage with the private sphere with a cultural device.

By: Ryan A

Ryan A — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:26:10 +0000

I’m effectively saying that the real life individual has the potential to be comprised of a plethora of distinctive internet identities or, possibly, individualities because it is precisely the distinct social nature of each sphere which determines that very “consciousness” or identity

and that’s a brilliant way to put it. We can put individuals into a specific context, and they may be very different from themselves in another context. It’s human, but almost always socially driven. Authors can exploit this safely and there should be nothing wrong as there is some amount of separation between contexts (mutual exclusion). Good stuff.

is that in order to breach the damming effects of the medium and de facto private spheres and channels, new forms of digital identity have to be thought of

Or proxies. I don’t think the damming effects are a matter as long as there is separation from the author’s perspectives between contexts/environments. If that makes sense…

@ghostlightning, inconsistent nexistences is an issue if there is no separation of context; people in Facebook don’t need to acknowledge one’s existence in the the aniblogosphere in order to validate that existence as they are separate “worlds” (in other words, they shouldn’t effect each other).

The notepadding is basically taking a short perspective on an article, it’s not necessarily a response/comment/conversation, just a “take” it’s external from the subject of the note. Or something like that.

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By: ghostlightning

ghostlightning — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:18:43 +0000

This is great. I’m too new to the environment to comment with any substance, but rather I need some clarifications:

1. The concern (or at least one of them) is that people tend to have different and perhaps inconsistent nexistences (i.e. people on my facebook may not know or relate to me as ghostlightning the aniblogger, but rather mike the tennis fagn).

2. notepadding (I don’t understand the concept)

I get the impression that the content we choose to write about, under the structures that distribute it to readers – do more to determine our nexistence than the actual production we do (quality should figure in this, but I don’t know how to fit it in yet).

Let me know if I’m getting the ideas correctly. Maybe afterward I’ll have something to contribute.