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an additional thought from ryan, whose (lifted) post inspired 7 comments yesterday!

I’m interested in thinking about what i choose to share and what that says about me to others.� Mostly, reading online journals is an act of consumption unless there is dialog, via notes, comments whatever.� Your little xanga group seems to have that dialog via your comments or your face to face interactions. Essentially, xanga makes the connection between self and product tenable.
not necessarily real or required. but it is a possibility and one that unnerves me.

i’m more concerned with the larger issue of self creation (inspired by the heavy doses of social theory i’ve been consuming over the last couple years) and the type of self creation that goes into blogs and the possibility of exploitation via self (as in my sometimes overly confessional modes of diarylanding) or capitalist self-branding.� i’m implicating myself in
these problems as much as “xanga” or whatever.� of course there is choice, of course as seth says “it’s everywhere”.� that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be analyzing what the implications are.� And we aren’t living through xanga or diaryland, but in the case of you and me, it is primarily how we experience each other.� so there are those concerns for me. less so for you and your houston crew of course.� it would be nice not to have to see you through the xanga lens or for you to experience me through d-land.� but that is real and i want to think about what that means, and it’s a mess in my head and not really clear.

enough.� the new mantra is practice over theory!

[posh] thanx ryan. an excellent continuation of our yesterday conversation. and another excuse for me not to post any sort of original thought (rain = miss lazy pants).