about electronic publishing is that it's moved the bar for the concept of "being published" quite a long way from where it was at the beginning of the internet age. I can remember when having your OWN WEB PAGE was really impressive, and I think I considered stuff like The Misanthropic Bitch's essays "published" as they were online and readable by anybody who wanted to look for them.
Then there was Livejournal and the beginning of the massive burgeoning concept of online RP and interactive storytelling: and after that everyone had a blog, not just people with something important to say, and now with Facebook everyone in the universe is constantly publishing themselves, sometimes several times a day.
Which means that "being published" has retreated entirely to the realm of the printed word and the online lit journal. What I'm doing here is not publishing so much as rambling, and I'm getting nothing back from it but the satisfaction of doing the rambling itself.
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