Talk:Meta
From TimeOutAtSea
I suppose, more than the creators of this site, I'm interested in disambiguation, factual information, putting together a timeline of what I knew or experienced about Lulu. To me, "online" is chiefly a means of communication between people, not another dimension of existence. I integrate what I knew about Lulu through her public online persona with how I [and other people say they] knew her privately, online and through other means (usually telephone). I found out that she'd died, through the friends Lulu and I had in common online, and online is where my contributions to this site were sought. By originally posting the link above on the "Thoughts" page, I was showing that my reaction to her being gone is partly to think about the mundane details. If a disease killed her, I'd like to know so that, as a woman Lulu's age with perhaps similar health concerns, I could help to raise awareness of those concerns---not to be inappropriately snatching at a private personal detail. The focus of this site is how Lulu communicated online, not how she lived and died IRL, but, well, these are my "Thoughts," so I'm putting these at least on the discussion page. If you do know anything more about her life offline and would like to help some of her friends establish closure or perspective about losing her, please contact me. --msggoat 01:04, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Heh, It's not that I'm interested in ambiguity, it's more of a bad habit for me. It's funny, when I think about Lulu, I do feel like we communicated in another dimension of existence. It wasn't like any other normal relationship I've had. And now it's even more abstract that it's disappearing from my memory. Now imagined things, and memories mix and can't be certain of anything. Which is why I wanted to create this site, to hold memories and to get another perspective.
Maybe we could create a page, called biography or something like that where we could start assembling facts, and another part for hosting her writing and other creative works. I had no plan or direction when I created the nav links, they were just the first things that occured to me:
Now I'm thinking for the nav have something like
- home (home sounds so generic doesn't it)
- memory (where people can contribute memories, anecdotes)
- found (for found writing and other artifacts)
- contrib (anything else people want to contribute, like thoughts, unauthorized biographic details, other sources of info, etc...?)
- meta (for talking about the site like we are doing now)
I don't think this is quite right yet, but thats my second stab at it. Anyhow I thank you for your contribution Laurie. --Desierto 02:58, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to create a todo list for myself.
Better
Thanks for acknowledging my perspective. Somewhere along the line I changed from from an INFP to a INTP or INFJ! Well, yeah, I think this is a good setup, although for a while I'll have to stop to remind myself what "meta" means. In general, I think "Found" could be better organized; I have the urge to make it a sort of timeline---you know---6D, situationists, abattoir, slaughterhouse, electricant, the international psychogeographical site, livejournal. At least take away my %%%% and make each entry have headings. I know you wanted more attractive formatting for the reproduction of the blog part. Should I email you images, or theoldanarchist? I have a few photos. It is very good of you to set this up and put so much work into it. --msggoat 11:09, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
