A Po-Blo Manifesto

For 2009: A post-blog blog.

Or, as it is more commonly known, po-blo blo.

Is an attempt to make a blog without the inherent blogginess of blogging. A blog beyond blo. Because there’s already enough blo in the world.

This particular po-blo blo is one set of the images and words that compose life in Berlin and an increasingly cosmopolitan youth culture. The Blo. Without commentary. The Po.

First, a couple of definitions from Webster’s:

Blog: an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page; Example: Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author; Etymology: shortened form of Weblog.

Post-: A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript.

Post-Modern: date—1925; 1. of, relating to, or being an era after a modern one; 2. a. of, relating to, or being any of various movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by a return to traditional materials and forms (as in architecture) or by ironic self-reference and absurdity (as in literature) b. of, relating to, or being a theory that involves a radical reappraisal of modern assumptions about culture, identity, history or lanugage.

This has been a po-blo blo po.

Not to be confused with a po-mo blo po.