i really enjoyed this whole episode, especially tilly's rebuttal post, and the final post. they were compelling and moving.

other than that i personally am also (like tilly) ready to drop it. for me it's not that it raised interesting questions that could generate debate and discussion for a long time (it did, but i'll leave that to others). it was more like fiction for me. in that, i enjoyed the reading because of how it moved me emotionally. yeah, it was a lot like fiction. reality fiction.

so even though i can totally understand why tessy would be highly bummed out by all this, at the same time i'd say it was a pretty good story, a blogging success. for an aspiring writer/academic, this was cool.

maybe in a way, in addition to being salacious and self-serving, olsen was also helping out an aspiring young writer, and at the same time knowingly portraying herself in a negative light. (well, knowingly or otherwise).

to tilly i would say: be of good cheer. the story was good. a lot of people read it. no one has any idea who you are. except for people who already knew. and maybe a few others. but come on, what were you expecting when you started a blog??

mickey,

you raise something really interesting from a philosophical point of view and that is, if blogs read like fictions but they are supposed to be the writer's speech wouldn't that mean then that speech is a construct? In other words, isn't the reality we claim as the facts happening now a form of fiction?

of course, this is a problematic proposition given the times we live in, when republican warmongers acknowledge to have made up the reality first, then worry about the evidence to support it later. but I think what this means is that perspectivist politics is not a progressive tactic of "difference" or
"polivalence" of "others" but a tactic used for power.

in other words, this here me is a construct, an instance of who i am and not all i am. the question is, what comes first? do i construct me before writing or do i contruct me while i am writing or am i a construct that happens only after writing?

i've always said that i can't wait for the day a biographer writes about their subject solely based on their net presence. no interview, no seondary sources --just their Yahoo!Groups threads, blogs, comments, IRCs. now, that would be a good read indeed.

The article actually annoyed me enough to write a blog post on it. Then I decided to go see what others was saying. Gathering from the tone of her article I doubt Olen was trying to help anyone other than herself.

WERE saying. Sorry, had I not corrected that it would have bugged me :)