chickens and god
Subject: chickens and god
From: Rebecca Memoli <rebecca.memoli@gmail.com>
Date: 3/29/10, 15:30
To: barriticus@gmail.com

I'll start out by saying that I am writing this email with a modicum of trepidation as it is already whenever I go onto True/Slant I feel like a goddamn stalker.  However it is that I've stumbled upon your blog doesn't change the fact that it's well written.  I even have a soft spot for your Henry Miller-esque run-on sentences, you get so excited!  I also think this Project PM is pretty incredible.  I never really considered the legitimacy of blogs as a news medium.  I've previously seen them as a way for people to talk shit about their exes thus making me eschew the whole concept.  Writing out that last sentence I already see how silly and closed minded that is, apparently I haven't been digging around enough, or at all. 

Now I can see the blog with potential as an uncensored platform for sharing information and discussion, or at least less censored than the more prominent avenues.  From what I've seen there does still exist a certain level of cattiness on blog forums, but I think that is unavoidable when you are working in a medium based on both opinion and fact.  This in it's own way sets a higher standard for journalists who now have a more direct and immediate relationship to questions and criticism.  That I can click links to source information in the middle of a blog article also speaks volumes for this medium's potential.          

Working at Internet Archive I've become much more interested in information and technology, and have fallen in love with the internet because of how accessible it makes information.  Oh yeah.... and clown porn.  Thank you, internet, for that too... One can find information that is slanted in whatever way that fits the M.O. of it's author, I have heard it said that non-fiction doesn't really exist as a literary genre because there is no real way of writing that is utterly objective.  But the magnitude in which all this information exists will create more learned internet surfers.  At first I thought the idea of your project being the beginning of a revolution of sorts to be a little far fetched.  I guess it really isn't though.  As you have explained it in more detail, it is a really sound project and excites me for what is to come.  I'm no blogger.  I don't think I can offer any support aside from the moral kind, unless you need some sort of visual something or another, I am pretty handy with the old Photoshop.  Sounds like you have a lot of work before this project gets off the ground, but I'll keep my eyes open for when it does.

That's enough for my novel of an email, this time sans cannibalism.  Good luck with this project, I think nothing but good things will come from it.  Take it easy and if you're ever in doubt....fuck.

-Rebecca