So-called "bloggers" are just "writers". I am a writer. You might think I am a bad writer, or even a terrible writer. My wife thinks I am a good writer but she may not be entirely objective. Sometimes when I write I use simplified content-management software often referred to as "blogware". I wrote a draft of this post on a legal pad. I am now typing my draft into Microsoft Word to edit my post and spell-check it. Later I will copy and paste the text into Movable Type and publish it on my web site, TheNationalDebate.com. During this process am I also a "paperer"? or a "Worder"? If I print my Word document and fax it to Timbuktu am I a "faxer". Why then, when my writing appears on my web site, am I a "blogger". Since when does the tool I use to express my thoughts define me? To quote the always articulate Oliver Willis, "that's stupid".
i found this quote on the internet, under blogs suck or something like that, all you have to do is google why bloggs suck and you get just about as many links as you would to peoples actual bloggs, now i thought that this might be a humerous antidote. in order to cheer up all non bloggers after the semester is over, there are others out there, keep believing blogging is not the answer.
ali christensen
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The first thing I thought when that fine art/vc argument came up is that it is so typical of newsgroups/blogs/whatever. As a communication tools it is rife with faults.
Adrian Vermette
This post reminded me of 'stream of consious' writing that was very popular in the eighties. Writers would pour their uninterupted thoughts and feeling on to paper without considering punction, grammer, critical relevency or purpose. Oh, and it was about a million times more fun to write then it was to read.
-Melissa Skowron
I think all blogs should be 'stream of conscious' writing, because it's not necessarily about the statement as it is about the communication... it's rare I stop to punctuate my sentences when I talk, why should we when we write freely, it's something else though when it's formal. Sorry about my emails Melissa! They must drive you crazy!!
Marta Gorski
e-mails are different because they are in the context of a conversation, which depending on the person can be causal hence the lack of punction/grammer.
Thats probably I haven't even noticed any in your e-mails!
-Melissa Skowron
If you write, you are a writer
if you play baseball, you are a baseball player
if you rape, you are a rapist
if you post blogs, you are a blogger.
-Connor W
This is something funny that I read regarding the validity of bloggers as writers:
http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20071128.html
Leroy O
http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/
pearls-20071128.html
Hope that link works. It didnt show up all the way on screen..part of it seemed to get cut off...
Leroy O
Definition from www.blogscanada.ca
So what is a weblog, anyway? Generally speaking, it's an online journal comprised of links and postings in reverse chronological order, meaning the most recent posting appears at the top of the page. As Meg Hourihan, co-founder of Pyra Labs, the blogging software company acquired by Google in February 2003, has noted, weblogs are “post-centric” -- the posting is the key unit -- rather than “page-centric,” as with more traditional websites. Weblogs typically link to other websites and blog postings, and many allow readers to comment on the original post, thereby allowing audience discussions.
Blogs run the gamut of topics. One may be a running commentary on current events in a specific arena. It may be a series of personal musings. It may be a purely political tract, as with Joshua Micah Marshall's TalkingPointsMemo.com. It may be pointers to other people's work or products, such as Gizmodo (www.gizmodo.com), a site devoted to the latest and greatest gadgets. Or it may be a constantly updated “what's new” by a domain expert, such as Glenn Fleishman's excellent WiFi news and commentary page. While some blogging software permits readers to post their own comments, this feature has to be turned on by the blogger, and a significant number of prominent bloggers have not enabled the comment feature. At the other extreme, the Slashdot weblog, featuring news about technology and tech policy, is essentially written by its audience.
What the best individual blogs tend to have in common is voice -- they are clearly written by human beings with genuine human passion.
-Brittany L.
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