10.11.2006
A Glut Of Occurences
After class Monday I was thinking about what makes a blog a blog. Aldon's definition seems reasonable: a reverse chronological list of events, sometimes with feedback, sometimes not , depending on the rules set by the "publisher". It's interesting to think about the first paper ever published in the United States in 1690. Benjamin Harris promised to present news "no more than a month old" and he included a blank page at he end of the paper for readers to write down their own thoughts/comments.http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/citizen_journalism/
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3 comments:
Good point. Appreciate the link, wasn't quite sure of who harris was. Funny, isn't it, how he, like most bloggers today, has an axe to grind.
Judging from last week's conversation, did you get the impression that the difference between newspapers and blogs is that a blog is more spontanious and isn't also organized by subject area?
Benjamin Harris? Why, he still owes me money!
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