Mood:
accident proneYoure afraid to talk about love on-line because you are afraid someone might find out who you truly are.
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The above statement, although probably not a qualifying one, does bring along with it issues concerning privacy, ones own generalized availability and rights to remain anonymous.
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and yet people dont consciously think (AOL keyword : "consciously"-,..-lol)
hmmhhh, this person is using the Internet to float out ideas in a thorough long drawn out process to discover who he is , and through the emotional upheaval of his life...challenge traditional nodes of thought as towards how the Internet re-inforces traditional ways of thought, and although still a new technology, doesn't neccessarily instigate or instill others the existent and emerging possibilities of what the Internet can accomplish more than keyboard rap and clatter of increasingly thoroughly accustomed users.
What tv did for radio and recorded music, what speech and sound did for silent film, what the Internet did for tv news and journalism...sooner or later....will there be a next best thing?
What will the thing that "does" 'something' for the Internet? Will it be
blogging? Video blogging? Perhaps individually owned and operated Jon Stewart shows.
Hmmm. You think? - lol
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I once had a fuzzy notion that someone could post a marriage proposal online. I know it sounds crazy but would it work?
Take, for instance, the guy who hires a skywriter to post the message in the clouds (where his head is at the time-lol) to ask his unsuspecting beau to take formal vows to spend their lives together forever.
Of course he's considered crazy.
If there were some ingenuity to be had first in such a creative endeavour, the world sometimes needs the cool kind of crazy to counter that weird kind of crazy.
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A marine biologist is raving about his work to his friends about some important discoveries made concerning blue whales. He enthusiasctically explains that they have determined that the whale can communicate through sonar signals to another of his species over 500 kilometres away. One of his friends finds it hard to refrain from being skeptical over the discovery, after all , what could the whale be possibly trying to say from that distance? Have they deciphered it?
I dont know the marine biologist says, exactly anway, but after much research we believe its something along the lines of or closely similar to the way humans sound when we say: can you hear me now?
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These consistent and inconsistent nodes of thought challenge tradition. Even though the Internet has not even been around long enough to attach itself to ideas and notions of tradition. Its counter-intuitive to think that such a easily accessible tool would strafe people into imaginative states that impose limits by its design structure. Wik came in to being, MySpace, UTube
So right now I am trying to get people interested in a story.
A story of a life journey interrupted. Things that happened and about others that never did. A life interrupted by the Internet. A message in cyberspace that wasnt supposed to be there. And another one that was yet to exist. And never did. All set up against the background of real life. A real life few know about.
Forget the speculation. Its coming about. Into a full circle. Anyone can start off to write about how the Net has changed their lives (realizing it has made some people rich beyond their dreams)
...my challenge to my self is to write a story that be timely. One that appeals to a cultural cross current and passed single denominational popular tastes.
Through the course of history, things can be lost, I want to contribute something that starts out as a mere thread, perhaps a lost thread...something contemporary and modern but with older history lurking in the background. I dont want to try and regain what has been lost. But foster an appreciation for what has been lost.
In terms of self promotion I guess a blog or awebsite can eventually have its limits. Just like every writer has his critics. But anyone who doesnt or hasnt read an writers work, is,..... at least: a potential critic. Why be afraid of that?
But I think most of all I need to do it for me. The negative publicity thing is not something I can attach myself to but felt the need to counter it somehow.
I want to say one more time....there are some really smart students out there. From the ones that I have seen speaking.
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When we realize the staggering implication as a whole the Internet holds on us individually, of our interaction with it as just a number, an IP, a person with access...when the burden of our responsibility to tame the technology actually dawns...the entire collective is temporarily frozen enmasse.
