{"id":6425,"date":"2005-10-07T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/07\/into-the-long-t\/"},"modified":"2005-10-07T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T19:00:00","slug":"into-the-long-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/07\/into-the-long-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Long Tail"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

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

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On a related note, I’m thinking through a few of the lessons I’ve learned
\nrelated to this project and this week:<\/p>\n