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Drift Reality is a space. It is a compilation of media I have created, collectively binded together under the name, Drift Reality.

Actually, I am totally juiced on antiobiotics, Robitussin DM, and Sudafed right now so there is an excellent chance this will be a bunch of gibberish, but the idea has been floating around in my mind for several days now and I had the sudden impulse that if I didn't get it down in writing soon it would dissipate.

Several days ago, a girl from a prominent Internet-focused company asked me the question, "Do you keep a blog?"

I am sure what prompted her to ask the question was the fact that she found me to be exceedinly long-winded when discussing my thoughts on the Internet. Her question could pretty much be translated as: "Boy, you like to talk a lot. Do you sometimes have no one who will listen to you, and therefore choose to write down all this gunk in your head and post it on the Web?"

My response was, "No, I don't keep a blog, but I maintain and update a Web site."

What a nerdy and self-righteous answer.

The thing is, to me, a Blog is really a journal. It is organized in a chronological format and contains the rantings and ravings of individuals on a variety of topics. It is Kerouac electrified.

The information orientation of a blog answers the question, "What did you think today?" Then, it ties what the person thought today to what others are thinking today, through hyperlinks, into an amorphous schizophrenic consciousness. The navigation orientation of the blog offers the user an answer to the question, "What have you been thinking about in the past?"

In general, the blog is about "What did you think at time X?"

See, Drift Reality doesn't really answer the same question.

For me, the information orientation of Drift Reality is more about answering the question, "What were you thinking at time X when you were at point Y in the world?"

Through the arrangement of the site, I've attempted to incorporate a spatial dimension into the framework of my experience, my media. When someone wants to engage with my media, they have that additional insight into where I was when I wrote or produced something.

When I was in San Diego, I wrote more fiction (and crap poetry that I've since deleted in disgust). When I was in Korea, I was more caught up in the spectacle of my experience and wrote more autiobiographically. When I came to DC, I found myself writing more analytically, external to my own experiences.

I believe there is meaning communicated through the indication of where I was when I wrote something.

Back to the blog. The blog is a powerful medium simply because of its simplicity. And because of its uniformity. The blogosphere contains schools of idiosyncratic fish.

Drift Reality doesn't fit in though.