Blog Culture: March 2003 Archives
Came across Mind today. It's an interesting blog with thoughts of the day, almost like short poems of wisdom, for entries. The blog also, thankfully, reminds me tonight to spring forward forward an hour.
Brandon Barr makes an interesting point at TextURL. He says topical lists get their organization at a grassroots level, whereas forums are organized from the top down.
He says blogs are different. How? Maybe the individual blog is different, but I suppose one blog wants to join company with another, for blogs, or clusters of blogs, to join a conversation. In this way, blogs might be like lists: the single voice combines with other voices until, from the bottom up, an overall voice emerges.
I just returned from a writing conference in New York City where I heard Steven Berlin Johnson talk about digital text. I came away from his talk with an idea at last of how to approach this blog.
To unwind after getting home I looked at some poetry blogs and came across Million Poems, a pleasant enough blog from Jordan Davis, described as "Not a book, but a depot for poems in route." I'm confused, however, by "route." Does Jordan mean the poems in his blog are drafts? If so, I'd love to them read them instead on a Wiki so I or any other reader could follow the drafts. That would be a lovely route to follow.
