I’ve been discovered

There I was, blogging away in quiet obscurity, confident that my blog was only being read by me and whichever of my friends ever bothered to look. We’ve all got our own research to do and I see them all the time anyway, so I’m not suprised that my comments = 0. Happily engaged in online intellectual wankery, I suddenly find out that I’ve been outed by Lorenz, an anthroblogger I read occassionally on antropologi.info. You can find the other blogs I read in the My Bookmarks link on the right, though lately I haven’t been reading those blogs very regularly. I only found the post about me because I Googled “sarapen” on a lark. Surprisingly, this blog was the first result, my Sarapen blog on Blogger was number three, and the antropologi post was number five.

It’s also funny to relate how Sarapen was discovered, I actually posted something about an anthropologist working with Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan over in LiveJournal’s Anthropologist Community. That turned out to also be something Lorenz blogged about, then he (or she? they?) mentioned that the issue had also been discussed in LJ. Then I suppose they followed the link to my LiveJournal page, and from there followed the link to here, the real blog.

Anyway, I’m kind of embarrassed to be discovered since I don’t like how long and rambling my previous posts have been. My first couple of posts were edited, but I decided that practice didn’t fit entirely into blogging’s spirit of spontaneity. Lately I’ve just sat down with a definite subject in mind but let my mind and fingers roam as they will. I haven’t been liking the excessive verbiage that’s been resulting. I think that any essays that I write from now on will have to go through some rethinking before being posted online. I was already thinking of doing that in the first place.

I set up Sarapen partly hoping to use it to communicate with the bloggers I’ve been reading. I’ve only contacted a few so far, but I planned for things to intensify once I started interviews, so I thought it would be nice if there was already something for the bloggers to look at. I’ve been blogging with this future audience in mind. However, I’ve just met with my supervisor and she was pleased at how much data I’d gathered while she was in New Zealand. She told me that I might not even need to do interviews, since I’ve already got so much and I’m supposed to be finished writing by December anyway. So now I’m wondering who my target audience will be.

4 Replies to “I’ve been discovered”

  1. Hehe, you’re right. That’s the way I’ve found you! Your reaction remembered me of the post by another blogger I’ve discovered recently. She’s called me anthrospy (second paragraph)

    Lorenz (neither she nor they, but he)

  2. Jesse–I wasn t sure how far you want to move into the anthropologic public after I read your entry work that network. This is why I asked you whether you’d mind me to blog on your blog–admittedly an unusual question in blogsphere.
    Anyhow, I find your entries remarkably thoughtful, if I may say. And its SO cool to have someone around who is on Stuart Hall, too! 🙂

  3. Hey, if you feel like suddenly making your blog entirely about mine I’m fine with it. Or even just blogging about specific things I write about. I made Sarapen public, so I can’t really complain if someone starts blogging about it. In fact, it would be rather hypocritical of me, since I’m relying on the public nature of blogs to do my research. And it wouldn’t really be within the spirit of blogging, as I understand it.

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