Recent Quotes on Blogging
Posted by Richard on Wednesday, 1 October 2003In order to delete these emails from my sent folder—all of which were all to a friend who is writing a paper on weblogs and many (all?) of which were found at makeoutcity.com—I present a linkdump.
- Mathemagenic: “In a forum you have to read most of the posts to get to the point, but weblogs provide multiple coherent "views" on a distributed discussion simply because each author tries to make his weblog meaningful. This provides a reader with choice of "entry points": I can always select weblogs fitting my level of understanding and preferred reading style and use them as "lenses" to grasp what's going on.” So weblogs are kind of like soap operas, except you get to choose where you want to start. If you start from the last post and follow along, though, you'll eventually get the idea of what's going on.
- Naomi Darvell: “At its best, blogging is all about change. The format suits writers who want to move fast. This year, the blog world has been evolving on a grand scale. "Bacchus," of Erosblog, says, "The summer crop of hot new sex blogs continues to amaze me." Me too. Also amazing: the amount of mainstream attention sexblogs are getting. Reverse Cowgirl [...] is linked by such major non-sex blogs as Glenn Reynolds's Instapundit. Breslin has appeared on Politically Incorrect.”
- Dave Weinberger: “Blogging turns you into a carnivore.” Well, I was a carnivore before starting blogging.
- Paul Bausch: “Professional reporters are good at putting things in context, but they don't have the depth of knowledge in specific areas that the people they're covering (and often their readers) do. The weblog format provides the structure for people to write about their daily lives--and journalists could look to this as a source of expert knowledge.”
- Susan Mernit: “The topic of privacy and what you do and don't write on your blog--both your personal blog and a workplace blog--interests me as a question of privacy, but also of voice, of how bloggers present themselves. After all, blogs are personas. We emphasize particular aspects of ourselves, allow things we want to share to be revealed, and try to obscure those we consider private, want to hide, or are not aware of.” Today, there was something on my mind that I almost blogged before a nap, then thought the better of it.
- This has nothing to do with blogging, but I think the quote is funny: “Women who have never had sex with men were less likely to have ever undergone a pelvic examination, the study says.” Sounds about right.
With BloggerCon almost underway, there will be an explosion of weblog-related posts in the coming week. Not that having a paper due on Monday is helping matters for me.