Dear Peter,

If you read Amazon reviews you must have spent time on Jahsonic.com. Artandpopularculture.com does not feature proprietary reviews. Jahsonic.com was my earliest online effort at self-education which allowed me to arrive at a "vocabulary of culture", and the artists, theorists and tropes connected to them.

Dear Michael,
Thanks for plugging 'art and pop'. I am glad you mentioned the bliki phenomenon. You analyzed it correctly when you said the blog format encourages currency and the ephemeral, whereas the wiki symbolizes longevity.

Part of the reason of starting my own wiki was dissatisfaction with the policies at Wikipedia, their notability criteria which are different from mine, and their increasingly annoying political correctness (some say this, others say this, ...). The early days of Wikipedia were quite different. Part of my work is therefore to expose the inherent, but invisible biases of Wikipedia and other encyclopedias.

The way I see the bliki format is like this: the front end, one's posts are pretty much as in regular blogs. The back-end or the underlying layer of a bliki is where people can choose. You either 'plug-in' Wikipedia, if you are a ultra-right nationalist, you plug in metapedia.org, if you are conservative you plug in conservapedia.com. If you are into Zappa, you plug in the Zappa Wiki Jawaka.

All this allows like minded bloggers or bliki-ers to find themselves in the same namespace.

To illustrate what I mean, I have made an entry at my wiki for 2 Blowhards here. 'Plug in' this post at Wikipedia and you will get different links, ergo different meanings.

Yours
Jan

Posted by: Jan Geerinck on September 30, 2007 8:46 AM