Re: [-empyre-] Size matters?

["tobias c. van Veen" <tobias@techno.ca>]

> I've encountered, in the criticism of blogs by mainstream journalists, that
> the arguments basically boil down to "they're too masculine", and I see a
> lot of parallels to mailing lists. George Packer, in Mother Jones magazine,
> had an article about blogging in which he wrote:


[snip]

A counterbalance but not even close to being a tip of the iceberg nor
exhaustive .. each blog will link off to its own spheres ..

.. some good blogs that aren't like this (and from women):

http://www.purselipsquarejaw.org (Anne Galloway)
http://www.tinything.com
http://doretta.blogspot.com/

Blogs that are cool from some men:

http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/ (Steven Shaviro)
http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/
http://www.socialfiction.org/blog

man or woman? I don't know:

http://www.ashleyb.org/


Packard's article is very much focused on a particular element of the
'blogosphere': American political coverage. Blogs are much broader than
that. Funny how Packard's own paragraph ends with a knockout punch of the
same.

I kind of made the same critique against blog's soundbyting but not quite
with the same judgment passed on the gender / acrobatics .. but still quite
masculine, I guess:

http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/blog/C625679076/E283783808/index.html

Of note, scholars who blog:

http://alex.halavais.net/files/ScholarsWhoBlog
http://phdweblogs.net/


[ mailing lists are most productive when they are not arguments, but links
and essays ... not debate: but sharing .. some debates are good, but only if
a written response is taken in its formality ?]


tV


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