This essay is a fairly intriguing examination of the history of the weblog (and since the lovely view provided by the MOUNTAINS OF KAF is itself a weblog, I felt obligated to include a link) and in particular I want you to notice this paragraph:
The Metafilter interface instructs the writer to contribute a link and add commentary; Blogger makes no such demands. Blogger makes it so easy to type in a thought or reaction that many people are disinclined to hunt up a link and compose some text around it.[...] It is this free-form interface combined with absolute ease of use which has, in my opinion, done more to impel the shift from the filter-style weblog to journal-style blog than any other factor.
This is actually the least important sentence of the article. What she argues for is an increasing saturation of filter-style weblogs to combat the suppressive carpet bombing of mass media (itself, according to Rebecca Blood, a creature predicated on saturation), but simultaneously a proliferation of journal-style (or whatever style the creator wishes) blogs to allow for increased self-reflection and awareness. I wonder if it's so much a history of the weblog as it is a call for reform disguising itself as history. Then again, with no sources listed, it could be anything.
Just like the MOUNTAINS OF KAF. Hope you've enjoyed the view.
The Metafilter interface instructs the writer to contribute a link and add commentary; Blogger makes no such demands. Blogger makes it so easy to type in a thought or reaction that many people are disinclined to hunt up a link and compose some text around it.[...] It is this free-form interface combined with absolute ease of use which has, in my opinion, done more to impel the shift from the filter-style weblog to journal-style blog than any other factor.
This is actually the least important sentence of the article. What she argues for is an increasing saturation of filter-style weblogs to combat the suppressive carpet bombing of mass media (itself, according to Rebecca Blood, a creature predicated on saturation), but simultaneously a proliferation of journal-style (or whatever style the creator wishes) blogs to allow for increased self-reflection and awareness. I wonder if it's so much a history of the weblog as it is a call for reform disguising itself as history. Then again, with no sources listed, it could be anything.
Just like the MOUNTAINS OF KAF. Hope you've enjoyed the view.
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