out postin'

i've been noticing lately that in the fashion/retail/status label world
you're noone unless you're opening a new store referred to as an 'outpost'-
usually somewhere like downtown Tokyo or Dallas.

but is there any connection to blogs?
is there a new semantic meaning for a word, that until recently, we understood
to mean ' a small military base in a remote location or country' or
'a settlement in an unfamiliar territory or frontier' ?
a word which now instead describes the hurling of thoughts 'out' there on a 'post' ?

are we experiencing the relationship and activities between self and the net
as individual virtual outposts of the the cyber galaxy ?

whatever is going on - its nice to make a new friend - as we did upon stumbling
across an 'outpost' blog started up just this week by Auckland Art Gallery staff.

welcome to a world of outposts - may the force be with us !