Thanks, Madeline, for opening this up just a bit. I almost didn't post that entry; no idea what was going on, exactly, at the time, but I was having the sense that one understanding of a network made possible by blogging was colliding with another sense of network made real by HBC interactions. And the HBC interactions that filtered into other blogs seemed like they were pushing on what I could do at EWM. I don't know if that makes any sense. I was also thinking that there comes a point when these networks overlap that I can't perform as freeling amongst them (maybe it's better to say I can't escape them). I'd say my own sense of blogging network has matured, which brings about a certain kind of intuition that's hard to articulate (sorry, I'll try to keep from driving into the quicksand). It's just that I have this sense that blogging as decompression works very differently when I'm daily among folks who are now a part of both networks. And so the strain of things going badly at school/work (if only for a short spell), makes its way to EWM, even if only in the absence of an entry or an entry that reflects the herky-jerky rhythms of life. (Comment becomes an entry again, v. sorry!) I'm not sure what to make of it (being *driven* doubly?), but in the entry, I felt a change in the network, something along the lines of: this is no longer your pre-711 blog network. Don't know if that makes any sense, though.

Interesting thoughts, Madeline. I just wanted to insert the note that interesting research has been appearing on the capacity (or lack thereof) of the human brain to multitask, which I think is very much related to this networkiness you're talkiing about. As we're pushed and pulled in various directions, interacting on all these different levels and in different media, I wonder what the limits of network literacy are? Does the body have a "say" in literacy?