I don’t see auspiciousdragon.net as a stream of parallel journals but a single journal. It is varied because our interests are varied. The balance alters over time. We are both generalists, not specialists, and always have been.

“Daybook” might be another appropriate name for what we do, as might the more pedestrian “diary”.

Philosophers of language distinguish between the “use” of a term and its “mention”. My typing the dreadful b word falls in the latter category. Its like the difference betwen calling you a piece of shit and pointing out that “shit” is a word in the English language.

On a a less pedantic note, blogs as rooms in houses seems to be a good direction.

Bookshelf seems better than book.

Yes, I remember your living room comment. I guess you had more insight there than I did.

I think a group of rooms would work better as a metaphor than a stack of bricks. Wasn’t it my suggesion that a website is like a living room?

perhaps you need to start writing parallel blogs yourself first.

I hope to start writing for a group blog very soon: http://ithacatimes.wordpress.com/