Comments on: Amanda Palmer on Twitter, boredom, and blogging

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:10:22 +0000

I don’t know about a pony. It was only a one-word comment. I could send you a horseshoe!

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:57:31 +0000

Dave, what do I get? A pony?

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:34:26 +0000

Ding ding ding! That was the 12,000th non-spam comment on Via Negativa since it moved to WordPress on April 1, 2006. What a distinction, eh?

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:18:56 +0000

Cool.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:30:52 +0000

Well, I think she includes blogging as an example of something that can be either a distraction or a touchstone, depending on how you use it. It’s a very nuanced reaction. Like us, but unlike kids in their early 20s, she would’ve grown up without any internet.

By: maria

maria — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:54:51 +0000

I watched the video with fascination and some amusement when Amanda talked about how her generation, when young, had time to think, to be bored — all the things she thinks the generation growing up with Twitter and Facebook is missing out on, and how one’s blog can be grounding. Amusement, because it echos the same type of lament my generation used to invoke when blogging hit the world…. Good discussion, though — and an even better series you have here on poetics and technology.