Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
  • Mood: curious

Blog Metaphors

Here's a good post about blog metaphors.  Where are you, when you are in your blog?  I think of mine as a combination of office and living room (which are adjacent in my house) because I post a mix of professional and personal content.  Blog metaphors influence how people behave, because the etiquette is different for a street faire, a class in the park, or somebody's house.
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mdlbear

mdlbear

June 5 2016, 03:34:09 UTC 5 years ago

A few of my posts, notably the river series and anything set in Callahan's, have a very definite place to them. The rest, well, I've been saying for decades that Cyberspace is a place in its own right. It feels a lot like my desk, only instead of sitting in a corner of our great room, it's in a vast, somewhat hazy space where things take form only when I think about them. I get visitors only occasionally, but there's usually something comfortable for them to sit on, and their beverage of choice is readily available.

Very much the stuff that dreams are made of.
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

June 5 2016, 04:25:08 UTC 5 years ago

Cyberspace is basically the gizmotronic version of Underhill.
mdlbear

Re: Yes...

mdlbear

June 5 2016, 23:45:08 UTC 5 years ago

Yup -- "an alternate universe where magic works".

Sometimes it seems more real to me than this world.
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

June 6 2016, 00:12:40 UTC 5 years ago

Where we play with words and symbols
And creation is the game
For our symbols have the power
To become the things they name
-- "World Inside the Crystal"
mdlbear

Re: Yes...

mdlbear

June 6 2016, 01:46:18 UTC 5 years ago

Or, the official page. With the chords in the right places, and a link to the audio.

IIRC, I wrote that shortly after I started posting regularly in alt.callahans on Usenet.
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

June 6 2016, 01:57:06 UTC 5 years ago

:D Fond memories. <3
belenen

belenen

June 7 2016, 11:05:38 UTC 5 years ago

Mine is my house and my land, with gardens and wild woods. It really feels like a place to me.