Wednesday 11 February 2009

Definition: a lunchbreak study on form and netculture.

Watching: the clock

i have a very heavy net-life. being a web developer, this is right, proper, and it's how i keep my eye on the web-trends. i have a twitter account, quite a few blogs, check my personal list of favourite sites often. i also have a myspazz account for various musics (as well as better outlets for such creations) and lastly (but not leastly, it's just narrative convenience) - a flickr account for my photos.

thanks to flickr, i'm doing a "one photo a day" project this year. it's a pretty tall order when you're not a professional photographer, or travelling, or doing something exciting. mostly it tends to be stuff that happens to be near me when i remember i should take a photo. but in participating in this, i've noticed there's a few flickr-based terminology trends cropping up: bokeh wednesday, self-portrait tuesday, zen friday.

ah, but not just flickr. i got excited about today being zero punctuation wednesday. and of course, there was always caturday. someone mentioned sandwich thursday, too? what a concept.

well, it got me to thinking, and if i had the time, i'd muse here in my blog on the following points for a lot longer, instead of leaving them as an unordered list:

a) humans still love to apply structure to whichever culture they create - twitter is so amazingly open-ended, and there's so many people using it, that new rules and clubs and styles are created all the time
b) funny how quickly the net became part of boring life, instead of being the new novelty

and

3) netculture replacing the TV as a medium for week-shaping? (think x-factor saturday, corination street mondaywednesdayfridayandsometimessundaysomnibusatweekends)

It's So Cold: so terribly, terribly cold.
iPod: is a profanity in the anguaji household right now. more on this in a future post.

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