Is it Safe?
My friend Brian Clapper sent me a link to a post about a safe made from Lego® building blocks.
I laughed so hard at the comments, I almost forgot to look at the video!
Photo from www.bouwvoorbeelden.nl
I KNOW This is not Safe!
Failblog.org is all about communication failures. Perhaps that explains the stream of consciousness comments.
Still, hilarious nuggets can be found amongst the decidedly sophomoric static.
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Comment SOAPBOX
Our lives are filled with vignettes, flavored with views that scintillate our senses.
One of life’s pleasures is recording these treasures.
Another pleasure is sharing them with others.
We have cameras, videotapes and scrapbooks for personal audiences.
We have Flickr, YouTube, podcasts and blogs for wider audiences.
But, while multimedia content can exist in repositories, out of their original context, comments require their frame of reference to be truly enjoyed.
Like a punch line delivered without a joke, a comment without context is lifeless.
Are blog comments doomed to the relative obscurity of dimly lit cobwebs in the cupboard?
Will there always be a nebulous gap between a speech and a post, swirling with silent static and punctuated by pithy prose?
Or will the day come when comments can shine as viable vignettes, worthy of capture, classification and conversation?
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At writingup the comments were usually better than my entries. You’ve made me nostalgic.
Hi Pinhole,
I agree. The best part was that the comment headlines were so provocative, you had to click on them!
It was three years ago, to the day, that I wrote my first WritingUp post. Sigh… I think I’ll indulge in some nostalgia.
Cheers,
Mitch
Speaking of nostalgia…Happy Thanksgiving!
LOL!
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too, Randy!