Thursday, February 03, 2005

Card catalog versus Pavlovian responses


I've been editing here and there, judging the effects.

I don't know. What do you think?

The interesting idea steamrollered over us by the Benevolent Gods of Blogger is that the latest thing comes first, and, a smaller seemingly adjunct idea that nothing is edited.

Perhaps a little too much, "In the future, the revolution will be . . . " stuff going on out there with the information design folks? I suppose I can turn the HTML around on my blog some, but I have yet to discover the mechanism of tracking the posts. I know I can change the time on a posting, and that is one thing, but the original placement in the stream is determined by time of post (whether draft or published) seemingly.

Each post seems to be a marker left on a timeline, and if you go back (hint) and touch up your marker with a drip and a drab, you are left out of the readers' attention.

I think.

Perhaps one day a person will come along, constantly reading all the entries and comparing them over and over each day, and it will occur to them that I am editing constantly. That day, when it comes, my heart will soar, perhaps to burst in glittering fragments across the great expanse of this lunchtime cube. Ah, well.


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