December 19, 2002

  • Tomorrow's my 2nd xangaversary, but yesterday, Dec. 18th, was actually the 2nd anniversary of Xanga going full-fledged public.  Though Xanga now, with its new .net/.aspx implementation of the "Newly Updated List" has wiped away the evidence, I was able awhile ago to establish Xanga's date of first truly public debut:


    The Anciently Updated List


     


    Here is the ancient, founding key, the Rosetta Stone, to the genesis of Xanga  as we know it.    (note of 12/19/2002: this previous link is the link that no longer works--it's now defunct!)   ...and so on...


      


    Xanga is getting better, bigger, faster with the .net implementation and streamlining of features.  But it is also burying its past quite tracelessly.  This research above would no longer be possible today provided the current severely-limited interface accesses to searching xanga's past.  But that is just the inherent structure of blogs, isn't it--to live in the now and for the latest, if not for tomorrow? 


    I'm starting to get the feeling that the typical rapid plowing over of blogs and what's considered "current" in the Blogosphere is just symptomatic of a larger growing trend to become 'history-less' (storyless?) and embrace high-velocity culture change.  "What have you done for me lately?" has transformed into "What are you doing for me now?" 

    I'd bet that if Shakespeare were alive today and had blogged, by installment posts, scenes from Romeo and Juliet two years ago that they would have been HUGE at the time but today unread!  ...unless of, of course, he kept re-posting his excellent old posts--which makes a superb case for all of us to do just that with ours!


    The Blogosphere Challenge: Why browse yesterday when you can help blaze tomorrow? ...


    "You want pistols, hot-blooded people bent on making their mark.  Not mild mannered, conforming types who will succumb to the awesome power of the existing culture." 


    "...you must hit with enough shock effect to immobilize the old culture at least temporarily."


    "You must seize control of the energy-turn it to your advantage-so it can't be used to fortify and perpetuate the old culture."


    "You need radicals. Rebels. Revolutionaries.  People who howl at the moon."


    "...you can develop a reputation as public enemy #1 and still prevail if you have a good supporting cast."


    "Start out fast and keep trying to pick up speed.  Leave skid marks. "


     from High-Velocity Culture Change , by Price Pritchett and Ron Pound,  A Handbook for Managers


    The xanga-adaptation: "Leave prop marks."

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