Blog links to help shorten the learning curve:
BloggerMovable TypeTypepadLive JournalWordPressMSN Spaces--For an excellent definition of "blog," see
Jill Walker's entry for the forthcoming Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory.
--Blogger has
extensive help documentation and a
virtual tour of their service.
--Miriam Jones has posted
some useful blogging links on her own wonderful blog.
--Mark Bernstein has written what has become
a canonical essay about blogging.
--Liz Lawley writes about blogs as
social software.
--Mark Grimsley writes about the
symbiosis between blogging and scholarship.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum enlists his readers' help in cataloguing some of the professional rewards of blogging.
Blogging is about what Claire MacDonald calls "making writing": "stepping back from doing writing, thinking about what it looks like and how to handle it as material. All text has texture. It feels, looks, and sounds different in different places. Spellings change with context; even fonts affect our emotions. The language we use shifts its ground as we speak and write."
Experimental blogging/great writing/making writing:
Jane Pinckard (allegory)KF (metaphor)KF (ellipsis/demonstrative pronouns)William Gibson: "Mr. Buk's Window"So what else is a blog?
Jason Rhody:
sagging skin in need of fleshing outMatt Kirschenbaum:
a public workbench
Eloise Oyzon:
external memorya fractalJohn Hiler:
Borg journalismJulian Dibbel:
cabinet of curiosities, or WunderkammerMark Dery:
viral journalism"the closest thing we have to telepathy"a Cornell boxa front-row seat to the movies projected on the inside of other people's headsRichard MacManus:
a turntable for scratching and remixing informationa braindumpStumbled across any apt/cool/bizarro/left-field blog metaphors lately? Or composed one of your own? Please let me know in the comments to this post or in an email sent to kkru{at}mail{dot}rochester{dot}edu
Student posts:
Pat Kelly: image descriptionMichael Fugate: FCRemixKathleen Morimoto: phonographLeslie: cut-upLee: LOC visit
