{ 2008.05.26 }
When I first started blogging back in 2002, the very concept of the blog was new and fresh and I approached the whole process of sharing my every waking thought on the Internet with a certain zeal and earnestness. It was exciting, and I gained a great deal from the endeavor. To be certain, starting a blog was by far one of the most rewarding projects of my life. But over time, my enthusiasm has waned and I’ve started to feel that the traditional format of the blog doesn’t suit my current lifestyle or thinking process. I need something different.
So, being that this site has always been largely experimental, I’ve decided to start a new experiment, the idea for which has sat festering in the back of my mind for some time. I am going to continue to write, as I’ve found writing an essential to both my thinking process and creative expression, but instead of a blog, I will publish my writing in the form of longer-format essays in a separate section of the site. The blog itself will be turned into a digital notebook of sorts where, each day that I have them, I’m just going to capture spurious and miscellaneous thoughts as they arise. Kind of like an open-source brain. Comments for everything except essays will disabled. I don’t know why, I just feel that comments will detract from the process. The Internet is full of far too much noise and not enough signal as is. I will reserve my noise — postings of my daily whereabouts, projects and personal ephemera — for other forums.
I’m not sure where this will lead. My guess is that it may help me to better understand my own thinking process. A process where small questions and small ideas germinate into something bigger and more fully thought-out. But maybe not. I don’t know. Either way, the experiment starts now.