[-empyre-] Re: empyre digest, Vol 1 #148 - 6 msgs

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

At 12:00 +1000 14/6/02, brandon quoting someone from somewhere else wrote:
> These questions are useless and vain if we don't dare to go beyond the
> > surface level and explore new ways of blogging, enlarge the range of
> > cultural and political options offered by these new technologies that
>  >help us create in half an hour our own information channel

while i liked the intent of the post i resist the representation of 
blogs as  our own info channels. much too old media for my particular 
palate. my own (and it's my own but that's the point isn't it?) 
flavour is that blogs are about process, generally writing as 
process. they happen over time and it's where you externalise and 
make explicit ideas. some are good. some are duds. but it's not an 
information channel. it's a space to sketch but because it's public 
the sketch has to be more articulate than the doodle during the dull 
meeting.

and channel. makes me shiver (for bad reasons). too one directional. 
good blogs aren't channels they're emergent communities of interest 
and to and fro. and other good blogs are just semi public musings 
posing as editorials to the self.

cheers
adrian miles
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