Category: Blogging
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Hi guys
Sorry to stop blogging for, what, about three weeks now. A TypePad employee fixed my last Stuttgart blog post, then rather tartly e-mailed me to say that they didn’t expect to give customers that kind of help. Which kind of soured me on the whole blog thing for a bit… didn’t know how to fix…
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TypePad mess
Apologies, I have several posts waiting in various formats, and others in my head unwritten; but TypePad’s new setup messes with the formatting in invisible ways, and I can’t seem to resolve it. Will post when I can either figure out what to do, or they fix the mess they’ve made. (Although – admittedly –…
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Bonne anniversaire
Today is the second annual birthday of this blog: 369 posts (just over one every two days – a statistically lower rate than last year, but they’re often longer posts now). I remain pleased: this blog is what I want it to be, a support for writing, a communicative device, a casual map of my…
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… plugged in…
Okay, this is basically way too cool for me to get away with it, but I’ll go with the flow… After two weeks of too much travel and stress, intermittently interrupted by enjoyable things with people I like (and love), and even too-brief fragments of relaxation, I’m on the last night of the conference in…
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Happy…
anniversary. This blog is a year old today. I’m rather pleased with where it has taken me – 262 posts, or a hair more than five per week, or one every working day – not too bad for productivity, which is such a bugbear for me (one recalls Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King, quoted…
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Borges: Blogger
It’s going better now; several hours of successful work last night, the end is in sight. Some blogs keep returning to the subject of blogging as though they need to justify it: I have certainly spent time trying to get it exactly right, but justifying it seems unnecessary – why should any kind of writing,…
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White night
It never feels ‘white’ – though that’s what they call it (what Dorothy Parker called it, anyway). I hate, hate, hate, sleepless or fragmentary or uncomfortable nights – that misery, especially at 4:40 am when you get up to go to the bathroom, hoping that when you get back to bed everything will change and…
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Interspersed
Overlapping experiences: • have had a cold for three days, groggy and sniffling (sniveling? – that always seemed to be a different sound of course); every once in a while my face crinkles up, I mumble ‘damn’, and sneeze to one side or the other. • the weather is gray and increasingly wintry, but •…
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Blogästhetik
What is the impact of blogging on aesthetic production? A long phone conversation with Joyce in Stuttgart – a dear friend who has her own vlog, and is engaged in theoretical/practical work on digital culture – led to some of the following: (a) A significant part of the blogsphere is admittedly sophisticated and self-regarding, with…
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Truth in labeling
I wonder if it would be appropriate to classify blog entries in terms of… the seven deadly sins? Anger, sloth, gluttony, and so on. No, I think mine would need to be somewhat different – after all I wasn’t brought up Catholic: let’s try a few – rage or maybe petulance, inertia, envy, touchiness, acquisitiveness,…
Paul Attinello 