Technorati and a Tribute

After following the suggestion from Mis_nomer, I acquired a Technorati account. This enables me to see who has linked to either of my blogs. This means I can now see if anyone is commenting on my work in a blog of their own. Through the account, I discovered that Mis_nomer has briefly discussed my blog in an ongoing essay, The Blogging Phenomenon, but has also written a tribute to the style and content of the Finish This project, for which I thank her heartily. She also seems to have resumed her footnoting site One Million Afterthoughts (I used today's post to apologize for my thievery), long may it continue.

I'm starting to engage in the dialog that I'm aiming for. I'm receiving and acting on comments and suggestions (though maybe not sending out enough of my own) and have had two posts on other blogs written with my work in mind (the aforementioned tribute and Geof Huth's discovery of a shadow). The relative immediacy of the feedback in the blogging medium is allowing the project and its documentation to become more technically adept and continuously evolve in new directions.

I would like to include other writers in the collaboration. I feel that the project will only benefit from an increased participation and inclusion of different writing styles. I'm hopeful that signing up at Blogexplosion, as suggested, will mean I can discover/attract those that might be interested. More blogs will mean more material and a greater possible number of combinations of posts.

Each line is imbued with another layer of meaning when removed from its own context (original blog) and juxtaposed with a line from another. With this in mind, when I use the same line from a blog more than once, instead of linking to its original site, I now direct the reader to the first time it was used in my blog. Linking from this first usage will then return the reader to the lines source. In this way I hope to attach even more meanings to each line and present the reader with a new way through the non-linear story. With continued line repetition, the story (blog) would eventually become cyclical, the reader following a journey through the site, eventually returning to his starting point. That may take a little time though(!), for now it will just mean a network of overlapping pathways through the site and strange and new connections being formed through the linking of apparently unconnected entries.