Considering that this entry ends my longest blogging drought since early
July, you might have wondered what’s been happening lately.  I’ve gone and
followed up a personal-best thirty-one entries in the month of September with a
three-day lull in blogging.  To be completely honest, I devoted a lot of
time and energy this week to developing and fine-tuning a paper I shared late
this morning at the Contesting Public Memories Conference here in Syracuse. 
The cross-disciplinary conference continues tomorrow, bringing together folks
from a variety of specializations, a variety of places.  In the paper,
"Networked Writing as Micro-Monument: The Long Tail’s Nested Memoria," I was
going for a three-part argument about the persistence of social/shared memories
in the niches of blogspace.  To attempt the triple leap, I discussed John
Lovas’s weblog, micro-monument in relation to Chris Anderson’s articulation of
the long tail, and ways in which memorable personal intensities punctuate the
long tail by applying Barthes’s studium/punctum.  That’s where my mind has
been–stuck in the long tail for three days or so.

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