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November 29, 2004
cheap entry--or useful link?
Via Rana, a quiz about blogger types..
This is particularly compelling to me because I was just thinking about the intersection of time spent blogging and blogging *for* an audience. Who do I blog for? Do I know who my audience is? How does who I think my audience is change what I blog about, or how I blog? Do I want to get out of my warm bed to come downstairs to post some silly list about how staying in a strawbale cabin for Thanksgiving is a) good for the soul, b) really bad for the back because the futon in it is thinner and squashy-er than a slice of fresh sandwich white, and c) scary when you have a fire in the stovepipe AND a tree come down not 20 yards away from said cabin in a windstorm?
My thoughts these days are on the act of writing and the blog as a genre in which the writer's and reader's roles are so transformed by the medium that (and here will be my refrain) things like "reader-based" and "writer-based" conflate, that the term "responsibility" reacquaints itself with (or reimagines itself as) "the ability to respond" [in the sense of writer responsbility AND reader responsibility], and that I will develop a sudden and irksome self-conscious paranoia that I have misspelled responsibility 20 times in this really long, discombobulated sentence.
Posted by mryonker at November 29, 2004 09:20 PM