May 21, 2009
(Alright, But That Won't Stop Me From Calling Them "Twats")
The thing about writing is that good reasons for avoiding it often promote bad reasons. You will always have a million things to write; emails to follow up on and comment threads to finish. Your time will always be compressed between blocks of weighty Importance. But when you're gifted with a formal and much wider public space like this the trick is not to try and paint it as another responsibility, but as a release valve for yourself. Inspiration can't be caught or relaxed into. It can't be systematically stoked like a fire because you can't separate it from yourself. And trying to does violence to you both.
As an excuse for this post I see that Chris Acheson has put together an easy to use, portable package of Firefox with crypto for the simpletons among us like me. I'll link to it through the @H+ blog so as to spread the much needed props all around.
Returning somewhat to the initial topic, How The Other Half Writes is an enviable defense of Twitter. Of course the specifics of Twitter are inseparable from the internet's current context of centralized services rather than truly networking protocols. If the dominant use of certain technologies appears inane or dehumanizing rather than connective, it's worth remembering that their boundaries are shaped just as much by the luddite pushback against the potentials we so champion.
The thing about writing is that good reasons for avoiding it often promote bad reasons. You will always have a million things to write; emails to follow up on and comment threads to finish. Your time will always be compressed between blocks of weighty Importance. But when you're gifted with a formal and much wider public space like this the trick is not to try and paint it as another responsibility, but as a release valve for yourself. Inspiration can't be caught or relaxed into. It can't be systematically stoked like a fire because you can't separate it from yourself. And trying to does violence to you both.
As an excuse for this post I see that Chris Acheson has put together an easy to use, portable package of Firefox with crypto for the simpletons among us like me. I'll link to it through the @H+ blog so as to spread the much needed props all around.
Returning somewhat to the initial topic, How The Other Half Writes is an enviable defense of Twitter. Of course the specifics of Twitter are inseparable from the internet's current context of centralized services rather than truly networking protocols. If the dominant use of certain technologies appears inane or dehumanizing rather than connective, it's worth remembering that their boundaries are shaped just as much by the luddite pushback against the potentials we so champion.
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