Got all mellow today, reading the feeds, and I’ve spent a bit of time at Carl Honore’s blog. Well, after all, it is still Australia Day weekend, and everyone else is asleep.
Not only does this fellow NOT have permalinks on his blog (huh!) but he has linked to this terrific post by Michele Bowman, a futurist who writes at Fringe Hog, on slow blogging. Sounds like the States are crawling with live ones, doesn’t it? In Australia at writers’ festivals, the crucial factor militating against live blogging is the requirement to balance your laptop with your glass of vino. Notebooks are much easier to wrangle, and quite distinguished, really. I’ve become faster at getting the main points of the literati’s bits and bobs down on paper in recent times, and it’s not as obtrusive as a laptop.
I I especially liked the Slow Manifesto Carl found here on Metafilter (again, if he had permalinks, I’d find it in bigger type on his blog, and some of the comments here are pretty peripheral). After commenting on Jessamyn West’s blog that I have been ‘reading too damn fast’, I realised I needed to print that one out and put it on the bedside table, or the fridge.
Perhaps I’ll format it nicely for a study wall - when I get one.

I do feel bad about this blog - at present I’m trying to write a bit more for print publications, as well as fiddle with other writing, and the ideas I can filch from blogging for those would probably have filled two blogs quite nicely once upon a time.

So it’s a recalibration time over here. Expect to see ‘Archive’ added to the header of this blog sometime soon. A slow library sputnik. And if you like this name, and you’d like to use it, please drop me a line.
You don’t have to, but I’d like to know it’s gone to a good home. Hell, I’ll even visit you.

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