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Why on Earth would I want to blog? Will it substitute for email (or any older forms of communication)? Will it take less time or more? Its a place to display photos, but do I really care - or does anybody else care? Can I arrange photos like I do in my travelogues, or am I stuck with linear? Isn't this all a little too self centered (a collaborative blog might work...), or does it just mean that there is far too much memory and bandwidth out there (and too much time spent sitting in front of computers)?

The tornado of fire, at the Fire Arts Festival 2005 (The Crucible, www.thecrucible.org, Oakland, CA - July 15, 2005).