inebemm

Ewa wrote about politics. The thread was a record-breaking 12 posts, but unfortunately it was just the two of us. I wonder if any lurkers followed it, more expressed point of views could had taken it to even more interesting places, though we said a lot of stuff on basic freedoms and netcasted subway overhearing as art or politics, but mostly we talked about dog poo girls.

Another well-known net phenomenon is viral videos*; she posted this dance one, so I replied with that link in the thread:



To put it in a slightly overmetaphorical (beside stating an undercontroversial idea in a underoriginal) way, links and threads are what binds the web.

And what makes a blog a media in its own right is in part the possiblity of commenting, which I consider an integral part of it, like sound is integral to a telly. The replies and discussions of other people can make a post much more than what the original author wrote.

*Beside sites like ifilm, youtube, and videogoogle, you got video blogs like Video Wombat; here's four dance posts on it.

Two thrushes fly
To their ditchside nest
One flees, the other frozes,
Fledgelings still as statues.
Only the worms in its beak
Are slithering, squirming and writhing.

Eleven deers
Grazing in a glade
I loom leeward
But my stalkins's too fast
And my steps too loud
No wild wolf patience there
For I hear the call of the road