Blogging is where a person writes a journal and it is posted to a webpage that anybody can access. It’s the opposite of a diary. It’s for everyone, but only if they can find it. On the Internet there are thousands on thousands of open diaries. Filled with inanities, ponderings on minutia, obscure references, and self-importance. This is an apparently new form of expression for the world and anybody can do it. Would it have been possible without the Internet?
The Journal of Lief Herris made use of a shallow drawer in a chest of shallow drawers, in a shop in Kensington Market in Toronto. The drawer itself would be my web space, the chest the server, and the shop my Internet address. While browsing the store people were free to open the drawers of the chest and examine the contents of each drawer, were they to open mine, they would find a drawn and typewritten journal. Were they to come back and open it again they would perhaps find a new entry, possibly giving them a reason to come back regularly (They could drag and drop it into their “favorites”).
Interestingly enough, my analog blogging attempt met the same fate as any of my online attempts. After a couple of weeks it became difficult to maintain for lack of time and energy. That is actually the success of the experiment in my opinion. The analog mirrored the digital from beginning to end.