Many of you have contacted me about my post of a couple of days ago that looked like a private post. The one that said, more or less:

If you can read this,
you’re the only one
who can read this.

As you may have guessed, that was a post to my entire friends’ list. Anyone on my friends’ list could read it.

A little sneaky, but I did it as a sort of opening shot on a project I’m thinking about.

Specifically, I’m thinking of creating a poem or series of poems that take advantage of the unique structure of LJ — that would contain links, LJ cut text, filtered links leading to sections of the poem locked to some folks and not to others, sections of the poem in comments fields, etc. I’m not sure yet exactly how to do it, how to begin, or anything more than that broad concept, really; I’m just thinking at this point about using the functionality of the site to create an unusual art project that stretches and challenges how we think about blogging, the tension between public and private thought, the use of hyperlinking, whatever. I figure it will evolve with time, and I may not start it for a week or two simply because I’ve got limited time to work on it till then and I want to “storyboard” the initial sections, so to speak, before I begin.

If you were fooled by this and are offended, I’m sorry; call it a little experiment that went a little astray in the execution. But I’m definitely moving forward with this — maybe even to the point of creating a new username to put it under.

Any thoughts? Who would be interested in being a party to this if I move forward with it?