Optimnem Blog is the blog of Daniel Tammet, the "savant" who is able to cite Pi with more than 22.000 decimals, and who learnt to speak Islandic in a week. I recently saw the Channel 5 feature about him, and were like many others, I suspect, fascinated by his abilities. What's extra special about Daniel Tammet is his ability to verbalise his inner experiences with numbers and forms, and therefore his blog (which was initiated in July 2006, when his autobiography were published in the UK) might turn out to be another interesting way of "getting to know" how a person with his abilities experiences being in the world. I do believe that one of the strengths of the blog as a publishing format and genre, is that it allows people who perceive the world differently from most of us in one way or the other, such as also Pilgrim, that I have written about before, to voice their world.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 10:58