{"id":39,"date":"2014-09-13T23:33:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T23:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/?p=39"},"modified":"2015-01-28T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T18:11:20","slug":"john-john-i-can-see-your-house-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/tdc\/john-john-i-can-see-your-house-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"John, John! I can see your house from here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/damiengwalter\">@damiengwalter<\/a> I don&#8217;t think of Twitter as home. I think of it as the neighborhood my home is in, and I walk around talking to neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Scalzi (@scalzi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scalzi\/status\/510771573138395136\">September 13, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I was intrigued by the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/2009\/06\/the-internet-mapping-project.php\">Draw Your Own Map of the Internet<\/a>&#8221; project, and moreso when it became a <a href=\"http:\/\/tdc.ds106.us\/tdc970\/\">Daily Create<\/a>. But it was this tweet from John Scalzi which really led me to get out a piece of paper and make my own.<\/p>\n<p>(Oh. There&#8217;s a template. And it&#8217;s landscape, but I worked in portrait orientation. Oh well.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/125791026@N05\/15043016189\/in\/photostream\/player\/\" width=\"386\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a riff on Saul Steinberg&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Avenue\">View of the World from 9th Avenue<\/a>. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/4\/4d\/Steinberg_New_Yorker_Cover.png\" alt=\"View of the World from 9th Avenue\" width=\"279\" height=\"380\" \/>That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s in portrait orientation, and a weak attempt \u00a0at perspective. It&#8217;s a personal view of the Internet &#8211; not an attempt to reflect what I know about the whole web, but how I\u00a0think of my place in it. It reflects how I spend my time; it also reflects priorities in the way I use the Internet. (And of course, it reflects the way I wish to portray those things.) It&#8217;s also, really, a map of the Web, not the Internet. Notice that there&#8217;s no App Store, that I think of &#8220;email&#8221; as &#8220;the web&#8221; and not a separate thing anymore, that there&#8217;s no Netflix or Amazon Prime (which I watch through my Roku and TV, rarely my laptop or phone), that I don&#8217;t even think about protocols other that HTTP anymore.<\/p>\n<p>In reflection, I&#8217;m a little troubled by the fact that I think of email as my home. That&#8217;s where I start and end the day, where I&#8217;m most reachable but also most secluded. Facebook is the patio table in my yard where most of my socializing happens; Twitter is the birdfeeder on the tree where lots of things fly in and out. Google+ is that really cool swingset over in the corner which hardly gets any use. Notice the &#8220;access road&#8221; running at an angle from the main highway, which shows the way my friends lead me out to other points on the web &#8211; occasionally their web homes, more often through citation.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/connectedcourses.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/blog-talk-garage.jpg\" alt=\"Groom, Levine, and Rheingold as the \" width=\"225\" height=\"148\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don&#8217;t blog like my bruddah!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably <a href=\"http:\/\/connectedcourses.net\/thecourse\/pre-course\/\">Click, Link, and Embed&#8217;s fault<\/a> that I thought of my webspace on <a href=\"http:\/\/reclaimhosting.com\/\">Reclaim Hosting<\/a> as &#8220;the garage&#8221;. It&#8217;s the tinkering place, and the place from which I go places.\u00a0It&#8217;s adjacent to my home, but it&#8217;s a detached garage&#8230; which may say something about how I think about being &#8220;reachable&#8221; and &#8220;building things&#8221; \u00a0&#8211; or it might\u00a0only reflect the fact that my real garage is detached. OK, this metaphor is officially beat to death. Sometimes a garage is just a garage.<\/p>\n<p>I dunno why my car is some kind of &#8217;70s-&#8217;80s land yacht, except that it&#8217;s probably been that long since I last drew a car.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no particular reason that work-y things ended up on the left, and general interests\/recreation on the right. It&#8217;s not like this is a time diary &#8211; but these are the neighborhoods which explain how I think about my time on the Web.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, everything leads to Google, and Google leads to everything. Maybe that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/oz.wikia.com\/wiki\/Maps_of_Oz\">Oz<\/a>, and I should draw little feet under my house.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some stuff missing &#8211; webcomics ought to be on there somewhere, as should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/home\">LibraryThing<\/a>. But it&#8217;s a reasonable draft, and a fun project to reflect on the way I engage with the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.@damiengwalter I don&#8217;t think of Twitter as home. I think of it as the neighborhood my home is in, and I walk around talking to neighbors. \u2014 John Scalzi (@scalzi) September 13, 2014 I was intrigued by the &#8220;Draw Your Own Map of the Internet&#8221; project, and moreso when it became a Daily Create. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/tdc\/john-john-i-can-see-your-house-from-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John, John! I can see your house from here!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,5,11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographical","category-tdc","category-ds106-2","category-images"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53vXx-D","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}