To alleviate self-referential online uselessness, I shifted gears. In addition to luscious links, I now publish stories about my life. Having been at this for over a year and a half, talking about myself keeps me going. So people can spout about themselves online, more pages than you can click a mouse at. Storytelling is our catharsis, it's how we make sense of the world.
More people can share more stories over the widespread wires of the web.
This communication could be the building block of powerful community. I just came down off an erratic intense relationship with a beautiful depressed woman. While we were going out, I wrote over 80 poems and stories about her. I have put many of these online, connecting them together with a narrative account of our time together. I have received word from readers who are taken aback by the amount of seemingly private personal information I have uploaded onto the web.