The big D
rop caps are delightful, and so is collaboration. Tonight’s post is all about collaborative work on the internet, or what might be called omnilaboration, since ‘co’ is two, and the internet is a giant wad of artistic and creative types.
I got this opportunity from Jake Gest, who won the right to establish the subject of my frog blog by being the first and tweeting the word “frog” when I asked for input on Twitter. Later on I wandered over to his blog and saw his post about this free drop cap site by Jessica Hische.
Never in my lifetime have I had so many people to work with, and I don’t even know any of them. Goddess bless the internet. The worldwide web is a web of heads and hearts. It might even be considered one giant world-encircling, globe-girdling, graphic poem song book painting operatic omnilaborative artwork, a symphony of sympathy.
Unite,
LWIII
I have always had a love/hate relationship with groups. Collaboration and omnilabor have distinctly remote connotations from each other. And I now think I know what determines their difference. I think it is confirmation. When confirmation is something not good, incestuous, favoritistic-nepotistic, then it is dependent (and that was the important òther word), while when confirmation is something good, something great and re-boosting my belief and trust in groups, then it is the opposite of that. Independent confirmation. The most important two words in any language. When you start a two-word Hai, I will contribute with those.
Independent Confirmation.
Those are two very important words. Thanks, Ron, for including them. It’s an excellent addition to the global web of art and thought. As a writer those two words are key to my existence. I believe that the reader is more important than the writer. And that’s what a reader is, independent confirmation.
I will be pondering again. I think you must be a new part of my brain or something. The independent part that walks around in Holland and is more suave and debonair than the rest.
Independent Confirmation, a novel.
Too early in the morning for my physical brain to kick in, so need you to do the thinking right now. Will ponder later. Also never realized before that collaboration had any labor connotations. Must hang up onw and grok.
Have a great evening over there, my friend and portable brain addendum!