Comments on: More on Blogging as Genre

By: Jon D.

Jon D. — Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:14:07 +0000

What you wrote in the last paragraph might be your most insightful thinking on weblogs yet, but your constant name dropping makes me tired.

By: Will R.

Will R. — Sat, 01 Nov 2003 09:39:24 +0000

I am awed by this response. It’s great to see you back posting more again Terry, and I can’t wait to meet you out in SF.

By: Terry Elliott

Terry Elliott — Sat, 01 Nov 2003 08:54:37 +0000

Sounds like dearest Camille might be a little afraid of something. Let’s see– the journalists dis us, the academics dis us, who will be next, fundamentalists? This isn’t just another genre. Weblogs are connected immediately and that simple fact marks their difference from other types of writing. Weblogs have taken out the middleman and the middleman is confused and pissed. This disintermediation (isn’t that a mouthful) is one of the hallmarks of weblogs. Perhaps that is why blogs seems so “raw”. Weblogs get way closer to the mind’s original ‘chatter’ than some writers are comfortable with. Much of writing, like good finish carpentry, aims at hiding the mistakes/inelegancies generated in this stage. Might it be that we have been dissing our writing selves all these years. Perhaps this original face we see grinning in weblogs is whole in and of itself instead of being some staging area to a better place. Or perhaps it’s both.

By: Anne Davis

Anne Davis — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:17:39 +0000

Great post, Will! There is more to it but you are doing one heck of a good job getting right next to it! Your writing really makes me think…..

By: Anne Davis

Anne Davis — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:16:45 +0000

Great post, Will! There is more to it but you are doing one heck of a good job getting right next to it! Your writing really makes me think…..