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About this site
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A new section on the emerging blogosphere that's edited by Hylton Jolliffe, the founder, editor and publisher of Corante who believes blogging's more than mere fad and that what will flow from it will have major implications for media, marketing, distributed thinking and business in general.
Please send any tips, suggestions or reactions to Hylton.
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CORANTE ON BLOGGING: In media res
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By Hylton Jolliffe
AKMA comments on the friendships he's forged online: "I still resist the dichotomy between 'real life' or 'real friends' and 'virtual life' or 'cyberspace friends.' Interactions that involve physical proximity differ from interactions that don’t, yes. That doesn’t make physical interactions more real than epistolary interactions, telephonic interactions, and hyperlinked interactions."
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Frank Paynter, the "Mike Wallace of bloggerdom," interviews Tom Shugart who says he's enamored of blogging but thinks it may have "some built-in limitations." He continues: "Blogging--blogging, that is, that amounts to anything--requires commitment. I really think you have to enjoy writing or you're just not going to get into it... and you have to be willing to expose yourself to a certain degree." |
Dan Gillmor reports on Yochai Benkler's remarks at ILAW: "[We're] moving toward melding of production and consumption goods. For both purposes. Base stations to transceivers. Broadcast to blogs."
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Michael Geist says in an email to Donna Wentworth and Dan Gillmor on their real-time blogging of ILAW: "Viewing the course through your eyes (and fingers) has provided a terrific perspective on both the high level of discussion and the tremendous potential for blogging in the classroom."
To which Donna replies: "Today is the last day of live blogging. My fingers will thank me, but I will miss the rush." |
Larry Lessig to the attendees of the Berkman Center's ILAW program that's just wrapped: "If I walked in here with a dress on and Dan [Gillmor] blogged it, I'd be history, wouldn't I?"
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Ernie the Attorney says, of Rick Klau's efforts to "make Radio, and blogging in general, work better,": "I think that the Userland guys should have monthly awards for non-employee of the month, and this month I nominate Rick." |
Dave Rogers on those he points people to in his blogroll: "[They are] the blogs that are doorways to dialogue and the hearts of other people. [They are] one way the Web has changed my life for the better." |
Jordon Cooper comments on his blogroll: "These people I link to on the right of the screen are a commentary on my site as well as a part of my online neighborhood. It is a rather personal piece of code and one that has caused some reflection and even stress in many a blog."
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Ernie the Attorney, in a post on stories on blogging he'd like to see, asks "Why do some people catch the blog wave and others don't? I have told many people about blogging, and even set one or two up with a blog. But they don't seem to take to it." |
The Economist: "Just when old media began to feel smug again about its old-fashioned paper-based products, weblogging happened." |
Jeneane Sessum, writing about Jennifer Balderama's departure from News.com and the nature of writers switching publications in general, says it's nice to know that "her blog will remain a constant" and "I don't have to go chasing after her."
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Doc Searls on Donna and Dan Gillmor's real-time blogging of the Berkman Center's week-long ILAW: "This is journalism of a very literal sort, folks, and it is fundamentally changing the game."
Donna, four days into it: "It feels like I've been running a marathon with my fingers." |
Nick Denton comments on Rick Bruner's observation: "Coincidence? I don't think so. For budding writers, eastern Europe was the place to go in the early 1990s."
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Rick Bruner, in a post about the many prominent bloggers who happened to have worked in Eastern Europe in the early nineties: "One of the the things I love about blogs is that journalists, professional writers and quality thinkers are drawn to the medium, which is why so many are so good and compelling."
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Peggy Noonan, in the Wall Street Journal: "Blogs may one hard day become clearinghouses for civil support and information when other lines, under new pressure, break down."
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John Hiler comments, in an article by Paul Boutin on the hype over warchalking, on why the idea has caught on with bloggers: "It's the subversive idea of giving the finger to the local land-line monopoly."
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More from Middlebury: Barbara Ganley sums up a semester spent, among other things, blogging with "fourteen brave and bold students who, along with our experts and teaching team, formed this remarkable learning community." Says Ganley, "[It] has changed me profoundly."
Still more: "This course weblog is not the community itself; it is a vehicle for our community to create a collective intelligence I am eager to follow the next stage, to see if the community fluctuates, shifts around in terms of identity and purpose now that the official schoolroom business is done." |
Hector Vila invokes, in a fascinating discussion between educators using blogs in a class at Middlebury College, Lucy Calkins and her dictum that "writing begins with life work, not desk work." Vila: "If the student is thinking deeply, more intensely, is engaged in ways that are richer then before--and she's noting these things in her weblog, in class, in one-on-one sessions--then the writing has improved, or will improve." |
Peter Ford, who's interested in how blogs can impact education, comments on the enthusiasm with which parents have embraced blogging, "It's great to see how many are positive about the effect of weblogs on their child's education."
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NYU's Yochai Benkler is talking about Kuro5hin and blogs, reports Donna from ILAW: "This is a rich democratic process; two or three people run the site, and 25,000 people participate... [It's] no worse than much interesting commentary written by traditional outlets." On Google: "[It] distributes the production of relevance." |
JD Lasica weighs in on the ongoing conversation about newspapers adopting blogs for their staff: "It would show journalists as human beings with opinions, emotions, and personal lives... There'll be some ruffled feathers on occasion, but that's part of the price you pay if you want to evolve into a more open, less autocratic institution."
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Richard Bennett compares blogging to rap: "Your rapper will typically comment on sources of buzz about him on each CD, which adds to the buzz, increases sales, and creates a semblance of dialog."
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Asks Dr. Weevil, "Would it be fair to say that Blogger and Blogspot are the training wheels of the Blogosphere?"
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Ken Layne says, of his temporary break from blogging, "I need to change this thing into a more active form of journalism... Journalism means reporting from various scum pits and glory holes. That requires some coin."
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Emmanuelle Richard says, of the various bloggers that have gone on hiatus lately, "To me, surfing is more brain-scattering than blogging to start with." |
Dave Weinberger says, in a brief post about a class he taught this morning on new media, "Isn't linear thinking so '50s? Well, yes and no. I don't think it's dead in our digital future, but I do think that the non-linear, web-like, hyperlinked mare's nests of blogthreads can often be a better way to get a view of a topic." |
Laurel Wellman, in response to Steve Outing's article the other day, lightly mocks the notion of blogging for her employer: "It's a beautiful concept [that] would save me at least part of the trouble of doing all the writing myself -- in the guise of 'dialoguing with readers.'" |
Donna Wentworth, reporting from ILAW, relays Terry Fisher's remarks and his thoughts on the "semiotic democracy" he thinks could be in our future. Fisher: "The ability to create cultural meaning-making is widely distributed." Which, Donna says, speaks to the role of blogs.
Donna also passes along an interesting comment by an ILAW attendee from AOLTW: "The things that give me hope are weblogs - after 9/11 - and new business models." |
Dave Winer to Nick Denton: "You're so fucking wrong." The gist of his rejoinder: "All of the A-Team bloggers could quit tomorrow, and the thing would keep going." Why? "It's circulation and distribution. Blogs are bypasses for information, like the Internet routes around outages, just at a higher level."
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Matt Welch, in an article in the LA Daily News on the growing number of blogs on the San Fernando Valley secession: "Any issue from now on is going to get its own blog."
Says Jim Hames, who runs a blog on Reseda-related issues, "It's a computer application of something that already existed in a way... like the Utne Reader." |
Elizabeth Spiers comments on her blog-fatigue: "I'm wondering if there's some point in the near future where everyone goes through some sort of collective blogger burnout. I'm waiting for the blog bubble to burst."
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John Garside says blogs may help lead us to the Semantic Web of which Tim Berners Lee and others speak: "Many of the features that help to make sense of the Web's [infinite number] of links are already with us in weblogs." |
Donna Wentworth says of the real-time reporting she's committed herself to over the next few days, " I've heard people say that writing a blog makes you egotistical. Real-time blogging, on the other hand, makes you humble."
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Tom Shugart, who started blogging four months ago, compares it to having a child, saying, "It's hard to remember not having been a blogger. It's quite an encompassing shift in consciousness." |
Chris Locke's NPR chat on blogs has now been transcribed. On what's got him worked up about blogs: "We just haven’t had, as a species, a way to talk to each other through a public medium about things that really concern our lives." |
Nick Denton on why bloggers aren't going to replace newspapers any time soon: " |
Paul Holbrook says of hours lost to blog-reading, "Sometimes following other people's blogs is like talking to someone who won't shut up: you ask one question, and you're in for a 15 minute answer." |
Glenn Fleishman tells Mike Cassidy, who wrote about blogging in a Mercury News article last week, to stop "monolithicizing" adding that "saying blogs are uninteresting is like saying people are uninteresting." |
Jacob Weisberg, the relatively new editor of Slate, comments on what makes an online magazine special: "The way the Internet breaks down barriers between professional and amateur journalists is terrific." His idea of a good magazine: "a gathering of people who aren't all the same." |
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