Digg Jodi
Chances are, if you're reading this blog you will have at some point come across Jodi. It's one of Steve's favourite websites, and I'm quite partial to it too.
So it's interesting to see what the people on Digg think about it.
For those of you who don't know what Digg is, it's basically a huge voting system, where people can submit pages they think are interesting or funny. Other users then click these links. If they like what they see, they 'Digg' it. The more diggs, the better the link does.
At the time of writing, Jodi had just under 200 diggs, by no means setting the world on fire, but definitely respectable. And it's compelling to see a relatively large-scale reaction to this type of writing. Some dismiss it as pretentious rubbish, others think it's just 'cool', one person refers to it as 'new media art'. A lot of commenters have posted about hidden messages and ASCII images in the code. They're reading this writing. There are speculative questions: does a reader's reaction to the site change when they see that it has been 'dugg' 200 times? Do the comments influence their own response in the same way critical acclaim can in the current publishing climate? Is there a sense of democracy of opinion, where every reading no matter how shallow is taken as valid because it counts for one digg?
I feel a response calling.
So it's interesting to see what the people on Digg think about it.
For those of you who don't know what Digg is, it's basically a huge voting system, where people can submit pages they think are interesting or funny. Other users then click these links. If they like what they see, they 'Digg' it. The more diggs, the better the link does.
At the time of writing, Jodi had just under 200 diggs, by no means setting the world on fire, but definitely respectable. And it's compelling to see a relatively large-scale reaction to this type of writing. Some dismiss it as pretentious rubbish, others think it's just 'cool', one person refers to it as 'new media art'. A lot of commenters have posted about hidden messages and ASCII images in the code. They're reading this writing. There are speculative questions: does a reader's reaction to the site change when they see that it has been 'dugg' 200 times? Do the comments influence their own response in the same way critical acclaim can in the current publishing climate? Is there a sense of democracy of opinion, where every reading no matter how shallow is taken as valid because it counts for one digg?
I feel a response calling.
2 Comments:
Good luck to everyone on the reading and esp; to JOhn Stiles & Sophie Robinson
hello! i would like to contact you to ask for permission of use of this post on jodi: i am writing an entry on jodi for an experimental encyclopedia, and my essay will be made of blog posts. please contact me as soon as possible (i am subjected to a tight and forthcoming deadline) at camille dot pb at gmail dot com so i can tell you more. also, it's funny cause i know jow from "everyone's cup of tea" (via justin katko my bf and via the Cambridge Experimental Woman festival were I performed) who appears to be part of your scene. nothing to do with jodi though... eager to hear from you!
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