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[liadnan]

I've been vaguely intrigued by the many new ways of updating livejournal emerging at present. I really find it rather difficult to imagine a situation in which I had something so pressing, so vital, to say here that I couldn't wait for the next time I had access to a keyboard and an internet connection but had to send it in by text message or phone call...

Be that as it may, I was interested enough to look into updating by telephone, but since all of the available numbers for recording a post are in the US at present I think that's a nono. Still, it's been fun to put some voices to the words, and maybe that's point enough.

I find it difficult to take this place too seriously though. The idea that blogs, and livejournal's model in particular, will render redundant all forms of internet communication save instant messaging (which I never use), I find ridiculous. To take the obvious example for anyone reading this used to usenet or mailing lists such as the Culture, the comments section of a post is hardly comparable.

Still, who am I to judge. Yet.

My plans to visit Georgia and Armenia next spring or summer may have to be delayed by the little local difficulties, which is a shame. Rob has been talking about taking a villa in Croatia, which is presumably safer by now, and the cost does seem quite ridiculously cheap. I suspect there will turn out to be something dodgy about the deal, and there'll be another revolution while we're there, but it sounds like the genesis of a plan.

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[kake]

> I really find it rather difficult to imagine a situation in which I
> had something so pressing, so vital, to say here that I couldn't wait
> for the next time I had access to a keyboard and an internet
> connection but had to send it in by text message or phone call...

What, not even "I'm in the pub, come join me"?

[liadnan]

Not really... but then the people I'm likely to drag out to the pub on a whim are generally (except perhaps your good self) most easily contactable by mobile phone. I don't really use livejournal for organising things wot I'm going to do, but for talking about what I've done or general wittering. Which is, I know, the direct opposite of your own approach.

[fairymelusine.livejournal.com]

Obviously, I'm becoming rather fond of the phone post ... although it is merely a new toy ... another color to add to the contrivances I work so hard on in the creation of a virtual me. Amusingly, however, I only use it at home, sitting in front of the computer ... when I get so bad I'm posting from my cell phone, the world has my permission to slap me soundly and then take all forms of communication away from me.

And aren't all methods of internet communication inherently ridiculous? (she says, while admitting that she has not met One single new person in the past year that she didn't first meet on-line ... and, mostly, here)

[liadnan]

I don't think all forms are entirely ridiculous... I've been on a mailing list with various other people also now here for some 7 years now and have had a great time there. But something like that is far more interactive than here.

[fairymelusine.livejournal.com]

more interactive?

hrm. color me intrigued.

[chrysaphi.livejournal.com]

Dude. You are/were planning to visit Georgia & Armenia next year?

[liadnan]

I'm always planning to visit Georgia and Armenia "next year" but I'd bothered to look into it and find ways of getting there etc, yes. I may even still do it...

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I wish there was a way to update via - for those of us on very slow dialup at home, email would be quicker, easier and less expensive, and for when you don't have interweb at work, posting to LJ and seeing comments would still be allowed.

[liadnan]

I vaguely thought you could do that already actually....