Hi there.
Well, I get my blog started up, and then I have to immediately apologize because I'm not going to be updating this at the rate of blogs that I've seen exemplify the sort stream-of-conciousness thought expulsion that make blogs look so neat. Believe me I have plenty of stuff to rant about, whether you want to read it or not. My situation is that I'm an intern in D.C. over the summer, and at the apartment I'm subleasing I'm forced to live in the Dark Ages with a
dial up connection. And at EPA headquarters, where I work I'm technically supposed to be working using my nice fast Internet connection (although you never know what relevant documents related to agency decision-making can be found through a multiple minute diversion to www.thismodernworld.com or www.xoverboard.com). I also have basic Web communication skills to get down before I start linking all over the place, because I don't want to piss off any 'blog elitists' (is that a new cyber-term?). (A digression) I'm wondering, during the very brief period when I was interesting in usenet groups, but the only way I could access them and see archived discussions in a way that was clear for me to read was www.dejanews.com (which is now part of Google I believe). I was all excited about taking a look at alt.music.fan.frank-zappa (I think that's right) for the first time, and sharing views on FZ's music with people around the world, since Zappa fans in my neck of the woods were few and far between. Early on, I bumped into a message on the group saying that he believed if you used dejanews to access this group, "you cheated". Well, that got me worried that any post I put (with @dejanews.com prominently as my signature) would not be taking seriously because I wasn't a true newsgroup server. Add that with realizing that I wasn't nearly as obsessive as those fans were and that usenet groups are impossible to follow and pointless no matter how they're organized, and I felt very alienated from that aspect of Internet communications, especially after I read a few things from cyber-optimists saying how open and democratic discussion groups were.
My point is, I will try to follow the formats of a lot of blogs that I see, but this blog is basically at outlet for me to express my thoughts to the web world in a semi-understandable way. Already I'm not linking to every web resource I have mentioned, and because I'm going to do my blogging primarily from a Mac once I get back to school at Drake University in Des Moines, IA, I'm not going to have that fancy multicolored text that links you to another page without interupting your thought flow (see, i'm already doing a little research on the blogging details, good for me). So, I don't want to hear from any of you about how I'm doing things wrong. "Do you understand me sweetheart?" "No.. it's not... a subtle point your making". I had to resort to a movie quote to end that, sorry if that bothers you.
So not a whole lot of posts for the next couple months because of my less-than-smooth Internet capabilities. Or maybe I'll say fuck it and post a lot despite the hassle. I am in the nation's capital while a lot of deep political shit is going on. Who knows. I've typed enough now at least.
# posted by Zprofound @ 8:41 PM
