cabinet of curiosities
When I’m deciding what links to post here, I’m essentially curating ideas, collecting them to “send” to you (and to myself, in a way).
Jason hits the nail right on the head with this, echoing an early conception of weblog as modern wunderkammer, for which I regret I cannot find a source.
Comments
Weblogs and wunderkammers: Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man by Julian Dibbell. Very early and still one of the best articles on blogging.
Posted by: jkottke | August 29, 2006 9:02 AM
Adam, it's okay if you cannot find the source. We are all the source. The universe is everything, and so is the carpet.
Posted by: doug | August 31, 2006 7:42 AM
also i wanted to add something that i could find no link to harp on:
i find mainstream media to be filled not just with racial bias, or economic bias, but brain bias.
reporters write with the biased notion that they are the ones with the brain.
new york times, today: readers poll on how you feel about the treat of terrorist attacks in your neighborhood.
this seems to be implying hat i should be so fearful that my panic has produced an opinion.
i say, dear sir, mr. editor fancy pants. i have no opinion. i have only your stinking rag in my fleshy peach hands.
Posted by: doug | September 7, 2006 7:58 AM