\n| \n The bloggers who have worked their fingers to the bone to get here
\n and understandably miffed that with the current cachet surrounding Blogging
\n everybody and his buddy has a blog up and running. At the Blogger;s Bunch
\n this morning we heard from one Senate candidate from Illinois who proudly
\n proclaimed :"I have a Blog now" but didn’t;t know the address and couldn’t
\n understand why we all sniggered when, upon being asked how much of the
\n blogging he actually did, declared "I guaranteed I’m at least reading
\n everything we;re putting up."<\/p>\n A few minutes later we heard from legendary AP writer and columnist
\n Walter Mears, who also, coincidentally, just started a blog. He
\n couldn’t remember the address either, but noted it is available from
\n the AP web page. This was the fourth or fifth time we have heard
\n from mainstream reporters that they have recently established blogs,
\n at the
\n behest of their employers, for the express purpose of blogging the convention
\n and campaign.<\/p>\n Three has been a minor epistemological argument going on among bloggers
\n as to whether these blogs really are blogs, whether there is room even
\n under the "Big Tent" theory of blog variety for these disposable, single
\n purpose blogs. The consensus seems to be "No" and we tend to agree,
\n but not for the usual reasons.<\/p>\n Not because they are getting paid for blogging do their sites not qualify.
\n The employment status of the blogger is not what makes a blog. Neither
\n is it the reverse chronological nature of the postings or the unedited
\n voice of a single writer. We have concluded that either form nor function
\n define what makes a blog a blog, since every time anyone proposes a limiting
\n definition, someone else points to a site which is outside the proposed
\n limitations and is yet clearly a blog.<\/p>\n Blogging is not any of these things. Blogging is an attitude,
\n and these flash in the pan, media created blogs don’t get that, and so
\n they don’t got it. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The bloggers who have worked their fingers to the bone to get here and understandably miffed that with the current cachet surrounding Blogging everybody and his buddy has a blog up and running. At the Blogger;s Bunch this morning we … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |