homoLudens

More for the “Giving mouth” department. Terry Elliot named it in IM the
other night, a Kentucky phrase used to describe hounds’ audibly and
passionately on the scent. It came up in a conversation about
audience and encouragement for writing, with the two of us agreeing to
write more regularly for (at least) each other.

But the first thing I’ve written for him to read feels both too
personal and???, well, uneven if not downright trite. Still, knowing
Terry over the net and f2f now for close to two years, I want to
“publish” the thing for him and for some others, from within my
“personal publishing folder of work,” without making it part of this
cover page of homoLudens.

And thus, the recent installation of Tinderbox, an attempt to
simultaneously leave and stay with a blogging tool as the “cover” of a
digital paper workspace, a space in which organization of writing and
reading (and who knows what else?) is efficient, flexible, and easily
moved to publication. 

Is this a hot trail we’re on, Terry? J. Vornov (who’s using Blosxom, a blogging tool that Bryan Bell has been enthusiastic about for quite a while) writes: “At this point I’m trying to leave something I’ve been dissatisfied with, the reverse linear weblog.” Then there’s Michael Feldman on Dave’s Channel Z. And Doug Miller (He pointed to all of the above. And hey, note the multiple categories for his one post. How he do that?) who sums it up quite nicely:

The first panel at edBlogger resonates, leading to questions and intuitions about
blogging and writing. “Blogging,” for this moment at least, seems one
small piece of managing writing and reading on the web, just one particular and peculiar use of “digital paper.”

From Doug Miller: “To a large extent, Doing Something Different is the public face of Commonplace Book,
where I publish selected material that I want to share with a wider
audience.”

I installed Tinderbox. Now how the hell to I learn to use it?