Re: [re:] ‘the Story of i”

I’m being a lot more open on my tumble log, but because I am restricted. How information moves there — a video posted elicits comments, that elicit repost, not to mention back channel email and other conversations — fascinates me. Aggregate truth. Something intimate. “The last refuge on the Internet for girls,” Nick said. For the lack of comments. But it’s not that. The narrative flow of a blog is so expansive, it’s easy to get lost in your own myth, in the details, in being grandiose. When your contribution is so neatly framed, and your choices for how to express yourself purposefully limited (hello, twitter, which still only asks, “What are you doing?”), the tension that comes from being “constrained” produces a taut, dense result: both in content, and (it’s premature) community.