So, a quick explanation of the choice as blog as form here.
What works about a blog in a project like this is a) the ability to accumulate and organize information in a nonlinear way b) its general permanence and c) the simultaneous ability to understand or misunderstand it as a document one stumbles across on the internet.
C) That kind of illogic is lost when I do these pages. If the figure for the internet really is the flรขneur, then a guide map seems antithetic. Then again, I suppose that if the thing is to have any legitimacy, it shouldn't just appear as a strange solipsistic monument hovering around the internets, but one has to like the idea of someones' stumbling on the site and trying to figure out what it's even about.
B) But that itself is enabled by its general permanence. The nice (and daunting) thing about the internet is that, more or less, these things stay up as long as we allow them. Somewhere in the ether, I have a Livejournal from when I was in junior high. Luckily, the thing doesn't carry my real name, but it's out there for anyone interested (and able to find it...I haven't been). How poetic would it be if these things survived us, leaving traces out there for other species to find after we wipe ourselves out...
A) But still, the primary working function here is the blog's ability to maintain and store a great deal of information, to accumulate, to let things sit together, to let the links stay latent until analysis. The hope would be that upon review, strands may start presenting themselves. We'll see.
