14th
Tumblr can confuse context between publisher and reader
I just realized this.
4 of my past 5 posts on Tumblr have been about politics, and mostly about Barack Obama. If you’re a reader of my blog (big if I know) you’re probably thinking about now that I’m a super opinionated arugula-eating obama supporter. I mean that’s all I’ve been writing about apparently.
But I don’t interact with my blog the same way you do so I wasn’t consciously aware that my voice recently has been entirely political. My tumblr experience is posting to a stream of content from friends and other people interesting to me. So most of what I post is a reaction or response to what I’m reading in the Tumblr Dashboard. However, none of the people who read my blog see this context. They don’t understand that my post about Obama’s response to the silly pig controversy came after reading 3 other posts in my stream on the absurdity of the current conversation about who should be our president. My readers and I don’t share the same view of the context of what I publish.
A lot of the meaning and weight behind any statement is lost if you miss its context. Sorry to my readers who have missed that and sorry that until now I didn’t realize it.
