Is There Anybody Out There?
Waypath will probably be best remembered, if at all, for its “topic streams.” Topic streams are syndicated feeds that gather related content from a variety of sources and spit them out into one place. I discovered them when one of my own posts showed up in their feed about computer animation. I added several of the interesting feeds to my Kinja digest.
Anyway, Waypath served another purpose for me.
I asked Waypath to look up this blog and to “find all posts with related topics.” I did this in the hopes that I might begin to cultivate an audience, or a “sphere” (as mentioned in an earlier post)
The results I got from Waypath were very search-engine like, with very search-engine like relevance. (how much easier would the internet be if not for “manual relevance determination”)
jus gladii
I found jus gladii, which was probably on the list because I had posted a comment there a few days ago, on a post that I felt I could personally identify with. Then, on closer inspection of the writings there, I found this little bit of hot air
“the crucial problem of feminism, as it exists today–it doesn’t struggle for equality, as it claims, but rather for social dominance. “
All I can say in response is “Dude, you are listening to the wrong feminists!” (or “listening to the feminists wrong”) His intended point– that any kind of gender-ism really ought to strive for equality — its a well-meaning point, but it is made with none of the indications of a well-read argument.
I wonder, can anything “different” ever be truly “equal”– perhaps a complete lack of oppression is preferable to “equality” which may be irrelevant in the absence of oppression anyway.
Accidental Nomad
Waypath also suggested that the website”Accidental Nomad” is similar to mine. Wow. It sure is colorful. According to the sidebar, “The Accidental Nomad is the blog/portal/diary of a mom, writer, future librarian, military brat. ”
As a point of comparison with the previous item on Waypath’s list, I found this quote from Accidental Nomad’s author:
I’m from the first generation of moms that grew up expecting to work outside the home. My mother’s generation fought for that to be accepted, but I just don’t think it’s universally and unconditionally better than staying home.
Argh! call me a freak, but is it possible to read books and also to agree with those bra-burning radicals! I think I’ve been “educated” in the bible belt for too long. get me the hell out of here!
(I should note that, for the sake of venting my own personal frustrations, I have taked the previous quote slightly out of its original context.)
The front page was mostly personal stuff, but I found a book-blog, and I think, dammit I should be keeping one of those. All I have that’s comperable is this lousy piece of shit, and that isn’t even half of what I have read in the semester since I started that list!
Anyway, Accidental Nomad’s 50 books is worth reading. Here’s an example:
While I think Lolita is a phenomenal book, I am disturbed that Vanity Fair would call it “the only convincing love story of our century.” I’m not surprised, though, that they would confuse self-gratification for love. Nabokov did a brilliant job getting into HH’s deluded, justifying head, but what HH felt for that child bore no resemblance to love. It’s sick and sad that VF thought a 40-year-old man psychologically imprisoning and abusing a child (who cried every night) was love.As for the book itself, it was creepy, disturbing, and very, very good. Nabokov writes beautifully, even when discussing unspeakable things.
Eventually Clever
Right after cursing Waypath for somehow sending me a wave of un-feminists who are “similar” to me., I found Eventually Clever, another one with a good name. The very first sentence reads “Dina and I met our Unitarian chaplain last night. Lynne Beaudoin is as excited to perform the ceremony at the Biosphere” Alright, well getting married by unitarians at the biosphere sounds a bit more like its my cup of tea, although I probably wouldn’t actually do it myself.
But then I found something that actually is very interesting. The post is titled Game Preview: RPG Maker
I think I may have found the perfect Playstation game for my personality: RPG Maker isn’t really a game–it’s a game-building utility that lets me construct a top-down RPG game similar to the original Phantasy Star of Sega Master System fame. The game provides the raw material, and then I customize it to suit my needs/interests. If I want to create my own images, I can use the Anime Maker utility and paint my own meagre attempts at goblin representation. This game is going to keep me busy for ages….
that looks like fun.
well, the library’s about to close, so I might contine this endeavor to find likeminded blogs later.
