So, the farshah post (3 March) on my blog drew some comment - that was interesting, but consider my surprise when the image went ’straight to number one’ with 29 hits on my Flickr! That’s probably the way I tagged it (Lady Sovereign’s pretty popular, too!). Reflecting on this made me do a double-take. I’ve been trying to keep the focus on the blog and the blogging itself, but when you actually pick it up for inspection, you find it’s interlaced with so many other experiences, interactions and media. An intricate web of technologies. So Ruth sent me the photo-message of her tattoo. I emailed her to check out if it was OK to post it. She got back saying that was ‘cool’. I uploaded the image on to Flickr and then the rest is history (of course, in doing this I superimposed my own reading, but that’s not really the point). I’m thinking of the intricate web of mobile phone; email; Flickr; Blogger and ensuing comment. But even that doesn’t quite capture it - it’s too linear, because as I’m rather slowly and perhaps a little reluctantly discovering Flickr is a dynamic world in itself. Through tagging that image becomes part of the affinity-based folksonomy of the Flickr social world. Is Flickr in the study? I’m not sure any more. Well, I only have a handful of photos there and I’ve rather belatedly added TT and DrJ as contacts - I’m not sure I have the energy to engage with a new social network, but at the same time feel a bit awkward standing there, with only a couple of friends and this picture-sharing party going on all around me! I didn’t initially see my blog as a visual space at all - I was persuaded because it looked drab against others I was visiting, and, on a more theory-driven note, I was aware of the need to explore the affordances. At the moment it seems that the autoethnographic focus remains in tact, but the borderlands are rich and interesting and must not be neglected.