so i’m reading
laughingmeme
as i’m
wont
to doing and am enjoying his
allconsuming soap client, which is
inspired by
dj’s booktalk. a few posts down, i start getting a little wierded-out because
he’s written the post i would have
written yesterday
had i been sufficiently motivated to fully articulate my thoughts
about
allconsuming. i didn’t get it. it seemed like this thing on the periphery of my
understanding, something that seemed like it should warrant
further investigation, but it took
dj
to bring it out of the aether and make it concrete.
kellan also points out something i’ve been struggling with
regarding defining “friends” in these kinds of applications:
“I clicked on the “edit friends list”, with a certain
trepidation, as I never know the protocols for declaring someone “a
friend” in these online communities. Allcomsuming short circuited
this problem by asking Google who my friends are: rabble, dru,
micah, pseudopunk, and a few names I didn’t
recognize.”
i mean, who is my
foaf friend? what are the rules?
allconsuming
solves the problem in an interesting way, but are there some sort of generalizeable ground rules? as is not unique in the blogging world, i’m
acquainted
with many people, but does this mean i can just willy, nilly put
them in my
foaf file
? do i have to e.mail them and ask them if they’ll be my foaf
friend, pretty please?
anyway, i’m ruminating on this and much more as i’m slowly
scrolling through his post and that’s when i see that he’s linked
to me as the source for discovering
dj’s booktalk and i’m reminded that sometimes the universe has a very dry sense
of humor.