Well... thanks for that thought SP. I used the blog genre because it is very much "of now" - and a great peer to peer vehicle, with broader audience (indeed as it is here). But I wanted the "now" element top be looking back from a today context at some reflections in the past. Hence the RetroBlog bit. At the same time I've build podcasts too, monthly that are again rooted in a current context, but forward looking.
All this shows the kind of mess we are in with "time" on the internet. Mainly what i was hoping to explore was the nature of narrative when it is across time, assembled from components and without much in the way of linearity. How we make sense of narrative without the linearity of a time base is fascinating of course... look at the way multithreaded chats proceed.. or the way people us txt - sometime in an immediate way, other times very differently. Anyway... I hope the retroblog and Podcasts are of some use. They seem be getting a lot of hits!!
Stephen Heppell
Well... thanks for that thought SP. I used the blog genre because it is very much "of now" - and a great peer to peer vehicle, with broader audience (indeed as it is here). But I wanted the "now" element top be looking back from a today context at some reflections in the past. Hence the RetroBlog bit. At the same time I've build podcasts too, monthly that are again rooted in a current context, but forward looking.
All this shows the kind of mess we are in with "time" on the internet. Mainly what i was hoping to explore was the nature of narrative when it is across time, assembled from components and without much in the way of linearity. How we make sense of narrative without the linearity of a time base is fascinating of course... look at the way multithreaded chats proceed.. or the way people us txt - sometime in an immediate way, other times very differently. Anyway... I hope the retroblog and Podcasts are of some use. They seem be getting a lot of hits!!