thing 4: The Carasoyn

1. I "read more" about RSS. It's not a tough concept. Like programming your car radio for stations; some music, some news ands some talk.

The RSS feature, I admit, would be useful to someone who has sites that are returned to over and over. Having none of these, this was a simple and unnecessary collecting of sites. And questions remain:

What do you do about obtaining information not issued through a feed, it being a terrible waste of time to go searching the internet?

Since there's no way to know ahead of time what the content of a feed will be, is the point the feed or what's being fed?

Another way, can the content of a feed become valueless rendering the feed useless even if only from time to time in which case, how is a feed more useful than an intermittent search? Or are feeds always interesting?

Can and do people keep up with enough feed content to make them necessary (the feeds not the people: don't you hate problematic modifiers)? Just a question. Don't get sore.

All this talk of feed, I'm getting hungry.

2. Watched the video: see above (also, nice use of poster boards. No. Seriously. I use them myself though not on a podcast)

3. Successfully set up google reader account and added RSS feeds for a number of items after mistakenly adding 2 feeds to this blog.

4. Added the blog of someone I know to google reader but an email or a phone call will suffice.

5. Having done the first, the rest were no problem. In fact, there is probably room for every feed out there which would, naturally, defeat the purpose. Now, it would be interesting to bring all the feeds into one google reader, including google reader and the create a new account in that google reader and repeat the exercise over and over. RSS google within RSS google within RSS google, endlessly. Could that lead to conscious awareness of google itself?

I wonder if there's a feed about this?

thing 3: Hydrogen and Gravity make light and heat

Used the advanced search feature of each blog search engine, entering the same specific phrase in each.

Google Blog Search brought the relevant blogs expected by the phrase.

Technorati brought nothing expected and did not maintain fidelity to the phrase.

Blog Pulse kept the phrase but the blogs were of little expected relevance.

Blog Lines required an account and therefore it was not tested.

Apparently blogging derives its significance from the volume of people who do it.

Blogosphere: To what does this term refer that's different than any other communicative environment that accomplish the same ends. Is there a magazineosphere, collectedletterosphere, bookosphere or recordedconversationosphere? How does speech which would have no more than personal significance gain importance merely by being stated and saved publicly, or is the blogosphere populated by experts? What thrives in a blogosphere that would otherwise not?

I see a a lot of hydrogen. Where's the gravity?

I'm not saying. I'm just saying.

(Not to put anybody out but it has been said, on televisionosphere, that there is no third thing.

Actually it was the BBCosphere. Say! this is funosphere!)

Ah well, three down, health to go.

2: Further reaction: Peculiar communicative evolution noted

Email, as with the phone, uninvited presences request entry though less information available in email than phone but the visitor is unaware of a successful connection until answered and guest vacates at the termination of the visit, all by permission and in the privacy of  the host.

Facebook and Myspace require permission to enter in like manner but by agreement, the visitor may remain as a presence in an otherwise semi-private field after communication has terminated. The permission may be revoked.

Blogs permit the uninvited to  be a presence and remain and comment, as though standing on the lawn looking and calling through open  windows with no curtains or blinds. Inside becomes more subsumed within outside, losing privacy forcing one to move farther inward to maintain it.

The trend, apparently, is to throw the door open, to give over what personal control and information that the individual may have while being encouraged to develop the view that this is a better way to engage socially and is given, oddly, authority, by issuing it a name with a whole number followed by an empty decimal. Such is the suggestive power of numerals. Who would accept the validity of a philosophy called (business) lemon*hybrid*pineapple? (unless it was a drink)

We have to ask ourselves; are we primates or secondrates?

On the other hand, it is possible, being aware of this, to then devise, prepare and disseminate, at the whim and discretion of the host, for the purpose of maintaining a safe perimeter or even controlling the environment, information, which apparently needs no more authority than the fact that someone held a view and disseminated it, in a post so that the "guests" or followers as the designers of this device has seen fit to call them, may be presented what the host deems a proper gander, and either deflect invasion or draw in and persuade while remaining in actuality, anonymous, that is if one wishes to engage in this manner at all, but certainly when one is compelled. Probably a good venue for secret codes.

Unanswered is the question of how many followers constitute a cult and at what point can one start charging, applying for tax exempt status and secession. 

thing 2; next: 2 point headache

Video: L2 sounds like just L-W2
Article / Reaction: Electrons don't add quality to conversation or information.
Change for change's sake does not constitute a plan.

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Faces In The Clouds by Stewart Guthrie: 211 GUT

Thing 1: begun

Blog made. Done with the first part.