EGAD
or, (de)mythologizing the fetish of placewherein our unlikely hero composes a series of
empirical geo-anthrospatial dispatches, aimed at establishing just where
he is, and perhaps even why it matters
Sigh. LiveJournal makes things tricky for those of us out here in the rest of the world.
Okay, that's pretty close to blatantly false, but feels true. To wit: back in the day, if I wanted to hear the latest gossip I'd just have to see that I showed up for lunch or water cooler break or what have you. Then people started posting their gossip on the internet. And eventually the realization came to pass that maybe this wasn't such a great idea, which in LJ terms means that everybody restricted their posts to their Friends. But in the meanwhile, folks like me who tend to get holed up in a lab for days at a time got used to not being totally cut off from the doings of one's associates. So now I have to get my (virtual) self back to the (equally nonexistent) water cooler.
To which end, I have created a LiveJournal account. Apparently you have to befriend MilliganHasEars if you want me to be included. No sweat if you don't; if you're not one of the people who's been bugging me to make one of these, then I probably don't care about your gossip anyway (but notice that I didn't say iff).
That account will receive no posting. I do my talking here, for the whole internet to see. And it is completely separate from MilligansEGAD, which echoes EGAD for the convenience of the LiveJournal crowd but does no listening.
LiveJournal's like a big can of soup, that way. You need one hole to let the hot air in, the other to pour soup out.
P.S. I'm not actually sure how I'd know who's befriended this account. So email me or leave a comment on EGAD when you have, if you want to be certain that I notice. Thanks.
Posted by Milligan at August 29, 2005 10:54 PM | TrackBackIf you check your user info, you can see your "friends of" list
Posted by: xylo at August 30, 2005 09:16 AM (Permalink)Oh, and if you just "friend" everyone you want to read, you can check them all out in one go on your friends page.
Posted by: xylo at August 30, 2005 09:18 AM (Permalink)Correct you are, xylo. I might go the mass-reverse-friending route if I can't get my feed aggregator to talk to the LJ authentication system. Since I follow about a hundred feeds of various sorts, it's best to keep them all in one place if possible.
Thankfully, most of the 4520 posts it says I have unread don't need reading.
Posted by: Milligan at August 30, 2005 01:55 PM (Permalink)Well, my LJ reading account is now befriended by as many people as my LJ feed has subscribers, so let's assume that we've topped out. I feel so special.
Having gotten my feed aggregator to talk to the new account, I've been browsing. Some of you don't actually post anything in friend-only mode. I can only assume you befriended my account as some form of solidarity.
Except xylo, of course. He's clearly being perverse. Now I just need to figure out what he's up to.
Posted by: Milligan at August 30, 2005 07:29 PM (Permalink)World domination!!! Via the music of the Mariachi!!!
Posted by: Meridith at August 31, 2005 12:14 AM (Permalink)