Dave Winer's Morning Coffee Notes today has numerous thoughts and insights about blogging and bloggers, and several links to follow. It's a huge topic, and encompasses many different interpretations. All part of my blogging education. A bit like my first contact with the Web, back in 1994. Awesome potential.
Dave also talks about Rebecca Blood's book, which I have ordered from Amazon.com. Dave is not very complimentary about the book. Very different people, I guess, thus very different blogs. I enjoy reading them both, (although Rebecca looks a lot better-looking than Dave, but there may be other opinions about that). They probably have very different tastes in music, too (tongue firmly in cheek).
Rebecca's blog pointed me to an interesting article on blogging, from the Christian Science Monitor: "You too, can have a voice in 'blogland'", which resonated with me, being a new blogger finding his voice. I liked this paragraph:
On her fun site, www.popculturejunkmail.com, Gael Fashingbauer Cooper compares bloggers to DJs. "DJs play other people's songs all day long, but a great DJ teaches you something about the songs, introduces you to new music you might never have found on your own, and puts it all together in this seamless, intelligent way that only enhances the music."
While on the subject, here are links to several articles I have bookmarked recently on the topic of blogging. Flavour of the month in the mainstream media, I think. It occurs to me that it is probably more useful for me and any other readers (I hope there will be other readers, where are you Benos?) to record these here, rather than in some boring bookmark file. (Note to myself: learn how to attach one of those permalink things to items like this. It must be as easy as everything else in Radio). Update: of course it's easy! That little hash symbol (pound sign, #) at the bottom of each post is a permalink. Learning more every day!
So here's the list: Online Journalism Review, The Economist, The Guardian, CNET, The New York Times, and the aforementioned Rebecca's essay on "Weblogs: a history and perspective". Kevin Davie, on the reborn woza.co.za, gives a South African perspective. There are probably many others - like any number of Dave Winer's impassioned essays on Davenet, like this one, or maybe this one. There's lots more, Dave is prolific.
Let me save this now, before I lose it all again. I'll be back later.
8:46:20 PM 
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