March 5, 2002

  • Power to the Peeps—La Revolución es aqui!


     


    Xanga blogs have traditionally been one-sided with the possibility of graphics in the post, but with the allowance for comments consisting only of words.  This is not to belittle words—(oh words, that are the expressors of life’s breath itself) .  But posts have always been words+ capable and that has endowed the post with potentially more majesty—a patriarchal or matriarchal quality by which the conferral of graphical info, awareness, or prettiness was brought to the blog only by the writer herself and never by her interacting peeps.


     


    Well, Viva La Revolución, for the Peeps are now graphically empowered too!


     


    Whether the technique  was devised by seanmeister (as I  would uncritically credit), or merely further popularized by him (as he suggests), comments have now passed into the world of graphics as sure as the silent screen of movies progressed inexorably into “talkies”.   Yes!   And I, for one, will run strong and henceforth become a *graphical commenter*, mixing words with pics in my comments to you to enrich our experience of interactivity, render the matriarchal/patriarchal stance obsolete, and reinstate Xanga as a truly peer-to-peer empowered society.


     


    This is all so new that I’m still rolling with ideas as how to proceed, but tentatively, my new approach to commenting will consist of:


      


    1)  The traditional comment consisting of words and/or exclamations.


    2)  A *signature graphic* representing my avatar—which may change daily.


    3)  A special graphic appropriate to the post, if merited.  In extra exceptional cases, this may consist of a graphic especially designed to match the excellence conveyed in the post.


     


    But, of course, to all of this, there is a dark side:  The renegade with no interest in enriching a post, who would, for instance, publish pornography in a comment just to harass and disrupt.   Graphics can be a lot more like *sticks and stones*  though names alone might never seem to hurt as much.

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