What is a web site for?

Sharing information.
- giant copy machine of kevin kelly
- infrastructure (abstraction engine, quite literally for computation…electric fluctuations into “signals” because they are signs, they signify something intelligible (Sassure overture)) … tcp … http … html (to do it in a semantically structured way)
- why is it a human right?
Interaction. An interface. Manipulating information to manipulate real world. Transacting.

What is a personal web site for?

As therapy, confessional, catharsis, community?
- livejournal
- teen tumblrs, porn tumblrs - anonymity
As notebook, sharing / mental model - monument?
- commonplace books
- inspiration journals are this or news?
- bobulate
- kottke
- daring fireball - also news report
- difference with log book: amount of interpretation, themes?
As log book
- link lists
- quantified self
As library, collection, assemblage, archive, gallery
- photography work, etc.
- all your writings
As news report, ego trip, fame generator, expression of fashion
- facebook feeds
- what you’re eating
- pinterest / style blogs
As memorial, portfolio, resume, business card, biography
- “who you were/are”
As receptionist
- links outward, contact info
As laboratory, dream, sandbox, safe space
- jason santa maria
- guy that did metagames
- shaun inman