Alan, if its comforting to have your whole life in an alphabetized list of text files, then I say: all the power to you! We all have the right to invent our own personal form of database narrative.
On 6/23/15, 3:28 PM, "Alan Sondheim" <sondh...@panix.com> wrote: > > >i have similar feelings, but working starker at >http://www.alansondheim.org - placing everything in text files with urls >to audio/visual; at the moment i'm on "tg.txt" having gone through the >alphabet several times over. it's an arcane system which unfortunately >makes it difficult and probably useless for everyone except me; on the >other hand, the 20,000 pages of text and references there are fairly >complete. i started this in 1994 with what was called then net0.txt and >it's continued daily ever since. at least grep and other commands allow >me >to search themes etc. fairly quickly. but it seems a useless and quixotic >endeavor occupying almost 22 years of my life, as far as anyyone else is >concerned. > >On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Randall Packer wrote: > >> Interesting conversation about artistic output into the social media >> sphere. >> >> I am obsessively committed to my blog: >> http://www.randallpacker.com/ >> >> And have been for about 10 years. >> >> Why? Not so much because of the social nature of the medium, but because >> it is a database. It is my journal, my personal record, my own >>repository >> of ideas and media. My blog is a springboard for endless project ideas, >> most of which will never be realized, but they are documented with a >> system of taxonomies that allows this endless torrent of ideas to be >> retrieved and reused. >> >> I have a great fear of forgetting: that ideas will simply disappear in >>the >> ether. It is why Ted Nelson helped conceive the Web. This, in my >>opinion, >> is the great crisis in an increasingly complex global information >>culture. >> As an artist with a blog I have some control over memory and access, >>and I >> use it incessantly to track and organize and filter my thinking. >> >> I would be lost without my blog, which is why I have become somewhat of >>a >> disciple of Wordpress. With my blog, I am empowered to become the >> archivist of my very own Library of Congress. >> >> Randall >> >> >> On 6/21/15, 6:37 PM, "BishopZ" <xchic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I am by no means a Pinterest advocate, but I do have a survey question. >>> >>> Many of us fancy ourselves as artists - we like to make decisions, >>> even if it is only about our own work. >>> >>> Online digital properties, especially the top 50 trafficked on the >>> internet, differentiate themselves, not by content, but by features. >>> Pinterest's killer feature is delete. Compared to the competition, >>> Pinterest is about curation, and thus they are the only mass online >>> medium to, not just allow, but enable and promote deletion. >>> >>> The business model of nearly every large internet company is to juice >>> every individual for-ever-y ounce of click-y-ness and like-y-ness they >>> might have. Soak up every drop of interaction and use it to build a >>> profile which can be sold. 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