Thursday, July 15, 2004
ok, it's been forever (10 days) since i last blogged.
(forgive me father i have sinned, it's been 43 years since my last confession...)
so my illusion of having a reader disappates; if i had had one, they would have left by now. on the other hand, i may have semi-readers who stop in now and then, or check it out at least once.
my access to a computer has been severely limited. the access i do have - when current roomate is asleep or, praise be, back to work now, has gone into other windows such as work (franticly emailing to find cocounsel or a sponsor to print the petition for cert in majors, my "is it legal to write 'vote for smith'?" case, with some interesting nibbles so far from the right people)(this risks becoming one of those jeffersonian run on and on forever with lots of commas sentences, doesn't it) and a local board, where there's the opportunity to actually run into people one talks to online, and yet another blog (making 14?) at myspace.com.
myspace, and i'm late to the party here, because i guess that's why people were excited about friendster, is a tool for spontaneously arising community.
everybody gets to put up a few photos, have a blog with a few bells and whistles (i haven't found the link button but it must be there?) input a zip code, input data on one's tastes and interests, and then there's a search function (primitive but workable) so you can find like minded, or anyway cute, people nearby, and link them as friends if they approve, and based on who their friends are you meet more people.
i, a hermit who lives deep in the urban woods and can't deal with people, have 30 new "friends" and at least in a couple cases there's been suggestion of actually doing something someday. there are bullitens that are messages you send to your friends, and there's instant messaging which i've opted out of so far, so it really has the tools to quickly painlessly build some online community.
i've been blogging over there in a diary style. if there are three kinds of blogs, thinkers, linkers, and diarists,
the open diary style makes more sense when other people might be reading it to see if they are mentioned. disraeli wrote novels of that sort, thinly disguised portraits of people in society, so the books sold, and later he took over the world, or at least became prime minister.
i do not link to it. i am not an anonymous aardvark, but what or who i had for breakfast is not the focus of this blog, which is more about my take on ideas circulating in other blogs (where by other blogs i usually mean crescat or volokh, which have a sort of a monopoly power in the market niche of liberty law and culture blogging.
between myspace and the local scene board, and the activist community it connects to, i've been getting out and doing stuff more, and have finally found ways of interacting in my community that aren't just commercial transactions.
and i'm juggling crises. moved, because i had to, and the new place is somewhat lacking in amenities and has vermin and, as i discovered at 3 am, train noises. by vermin i did not mean the two dogs; we're getting along swimmingly given that i'm not a dog person. i've just heated enough water for a bath and have to run do that before it cools, so i hit publish now, and hope to have more time for this thing - someday. my blogging time may get cut back, because i've been thinking about going back to work. luckily, my papers aren't in order, and i'm hard core unemployable, and the recession isn't exactly over, so that threat may not materialize. but the few sheckels left in what used to be the retirement fund are dwindling, and the chances of ever seeing a nickel from the law practice/expensive hobby seem ever more remote. there's about a ten percent chance the supreme court will take my case, if i can get the printed copy in, and that would make life interesting again, but still 90% chance of no luck, just the little "cert denied" in the string cite.
if i had a modicum of financial backing i could keep building the string cite (stewart v taylor, anonymous v delaware, majors v abell) but that isn't likely to materialize.
and that bath is getting cold.
it was lukewarm, but fresh clean clothes, coffee, a sensible breakfast of leftovers, and i'm cheerfully ready to start a brand new day, except for the part about the train waking me up at 3 am, so i'll probably crash from exhaustion before the day is through. short term i get to play online for a little longer, might go read volokh or even drudge.
(forgive me father i have sinned, it's been 43 years since my last confession...)
so my illusion of having a reader disappates; if i had had one, they would have left by now. on the other hand, i may have semi-readers who stop in now and then, or check it out at least once.
my access to a computer has been severely limited. the access i do have - when current roomate is asleep or, praise be, back to work now, has gone into other windows such as work (franticly emailing to find cocounsel or a sponsor to print the petition for cert in majors, my "is it legal to write 'vote for smith'?" case, with some interesting nibbles so far from the right people)(this risks becoming one of those jeffersonian run on and on forever with lots of commas sentences, doesn't it) and a local board, where there's the opportunity to actually run into people one talks to online, and yet another blog (making 14?) at myspace.com.
myspace, and i'm late to the party here, because i guess that's why people were excited about friendster, is a tool for spontaneously arising community.
everybody gets to put up a few photos, have a blog with a few bells and whistles (i haven't found the link button but it must be there?) input a zip code, input data on one's tastes and interests, and then there's a search function (primitive but workable) so you can find like minded, or anyway cute, people nearby, and link them as friends if they approve, and based on who their friends are you meet more people.
i, a hermit who lives deep in the urban woods and can't deal with people, have 30 new "friends" and at least in a couple cases there's been suggestion of actually doing something someday. there are bullitens that are messages you send to your friends, and there's instant messaging which i've opted out of so far, so it really has the tools to quickly painlessly build some online community.
i've been blogging over there in a diary style. if there are three kinds of blogs, thinkers, linkers, and diarists,
the open diary style makes more sense when other people might be reading it to see if they are mentioned. disraeli wrote novels of that sort, thinly disguised portraits of people in society, so the books sold, and later he took over the world, or at least became prime minister.
i do not link to it. i am not an anonymous aardvark, but what or who i had for breakfast is not the focus of this blog, which is more about my take on ideas circulating in other blogs (where by other blogs i usually mean crescat or volokh, which have a sort of a monopoly power in the market niche of liberty law and culture blogging.
between myspace and the local scene board, and the activist community it connects to, i've been getting out and doing stuff more, and have finally found ways of interacting in my community that aren't just commercial transactions.
and i'm juggling crises. moved, because i had to, and the new place is somewhat lacking in amenities and has vermin and, as i discovered at 3 am, train noises. by vermin i did not mean the two dogs; we're getting along swimmingly given that i'm not a dog person. i've just heated enough water for a bath and have to run do that before it cools, so i hit publish now, and hope to have more time for this thing - someday. my blogging time may get cut back, because i've been thinking about going back to work. luckily, my papers aren't in order, and i'm hard core unemployable, and the recession isn't exactly over, so that threat may not materialize. but the few sheckels left in what used to be the retirement fund are dwindling, and the chances of ever seeing a nickel from the law practice/expensive hobby seem ever more remote. there's about a ten percent chance the supreme court will take my case, if i can get the printed copy in, and that would make life interesting again, but still 90% chance of no luck, just the little "cert denied" in the string cite.
if i had a modicum of financial backing i could keep building the string cite (stewart v taylor, anonymous v delaware, majors v abell) but that isn't likely to materialize.
and that bath is getting cold.
it was lukewarm, but fresh clean clothes, coffee, a sensible breakfast of leftovers, and i'm cheerfully ready to start a brand new day, except for the part about the train waking me up at 3 am, so i'll probably crash from exhaustion before the day is through. short term i get to play online for a little longer, might go read volokh or even drudge.
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