Alternatively...
Blogging is an ephemeral experience. To be sure, I have started saving my posts on my machine and putting them on a CD-R, but my posts are not as solid as a book. Ah, books. Books have weight to them. The smell of paper changes as a book ages. The simple act of turning a page has meaning beyond its most basic reason.
Blogging, meh. My thoughts, feelings, and musings are splattered upon a phosphor or liquid crystal screen, and with a mouse click, poof... they are no more. So, I have thought about personal publishing. Nothing fancy, really. When I get around 300 or so posts, I might make two or three copies of a book, just to show off a bit. That's not vain, is it?
Any ways, in real life, I am going out with my sister and friends to see Silent Hill, a movie based on the popular Sony horror game. Whee, frivolity.
Discordant thought; what would have Johann Gutenberg done with blogger?
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Friday, April 21, 2006
George Westinghouse
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6 comments:
smashed it as a tool of the most wicked satan.
I would do a book, but I'm not sure I would want any kind of hard copy proof that I write this shit.
Gutenberg would've been a failure if the blog came around before he got off his ass and tried to make a difference...
No it's not vain, and in the probable event that Blogger will one day shit itself, and we'll all lose our posts, it might be a good idea.
The better question is:
What would STEVE Gutenberg do with Blogger?
Quote of the day: "Blogging, meh."
i have to agree with rev, if the intarwebs and blogs came about before moveable type... shit would be bad for gutenberg. however, joe had a point. what would steve gutenberg do with blogger?
i like to think he'd say something witty. but, you know, that's me.
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