February 5, 2003



  • Above or here is the time-sequenced version of the graphical blog posted a few days ago.  This board is now 'closed' for it has reached its maximum stroke count.


    Though we xangans contributed heavily to this experiment, we were not the sole contributors--clearly there were non-xangans contributing mischief.


    What was most interesting to me about this was the wavering balance between creation/contribution and destruction/deletion: some particpants made love, some made war.  Yet it seemed, once into it, for some new creation to proceed, some destruction became implicit.


    A small plot arose over the graphic depiction of a horse that was rendered by our own woodnymph in the upper right corner.  Would it survive the onslaught of the mongol overwriters?  Would the (anonymous) self-appointed protecting hero prevail in sheltering it?


    Could such a 'graphical blog' in the future become an adjunct to the written blog?  Might it even be preferred to the written word for blogging by some?


    This innovation, by the way, is being developed by Paul Schmidinger for possible use as his degree dissertation at www.eigelb.at . 

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