[-empyre-] Re: on blogging

[Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>]

At 21:32 +1000 6/6/02, lachlan brown wrote:
> BTW, if anyone is interested, I invented the e-methodology where one develops
> an online publication as a way of approaching an ethnomethodology of 
> WWW with 'difference engine' in 1994. It's a highly productive 
> approach.

could you say more about the difference engine and how/why you're 
interested in developing an ethnomethodology. my interest is sorta 
marginal in a way - i'm familiar with various debates in ethnography 
and documentary and in reading eric michael's 'bad aboriginal art' 
recently i'm struck by some passages describing aboriginal IP that 
might as well be describing blogs.

>  I also have a web log I started in March 1993 (though it wasn't 
> called 'web log'
> then it was called a diary) which I maintain until this day.

the first i saw was robotwisdom which is i think a different sort of 
blog. robotwisdom started i think in late 96.

>  My chums Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie really formed the genre with their
>   travelogue A Hypertext Journal in March 1996 (we mixed approaches 
> in April 96),
>  the idea that one might open ones thoughts out onto the WWW was an 
> unfamiliar one
> at the time and the idea that a range of emotions could be conveyed 
> via distributed computing was very much in question. How times 
> change.

indeed, one of those things that appeared in various places earlier 
than the blog explosion but at some point it makes (retrospective) 
commonsense that blogs are an utterly appropriate form for the web. 
bit like how tv took a while to rework the radio soap opera (and to 
discover it) and make it into a major narrative form of its own. at 
the moment i'd probably be one of those who thinks that blogs are one 
of the first major genres developed in situ for the web that are 
inherently suited to the medium. they're distributed, networked, low 
tech, and about writing, not consuming. (writing as consuming)

lachlan, i might have missed it in my rush to write this before 
brekkie, but do you have some urls?

cheers
adrian miles
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