Tuesday, April 1, 2008

ALL BLOGGED OUT!

So here i am, sitting, well actually lying down on my bed at a very obtuse angle; with my laptop sitting patiently in front of me. The cursor blinks repeatedly without hesitation making my blank mind churn with a certain sense of anxiety. I think i may have been struck by writer's block...well, perhaps 'blogger's block!' In the midst of all this i start to wonder if writing and blogging are in fact the same thing. Are more traditional forms of writing and blogging created with the same structure or is blogging in fact of a more 'permeable substance'?
A blog i stumbled across (http://neil.brown.name/blog/20050521222535) pertained a similar pondering. "I am a person who is keen on structure. Not everything I do it totally structured, but where structure exists I like to find and make use of it. The thing about a blog is it is largely unstructured. It is just a time-ordered series of thoughts", the author said on his blog site. Is that what we are missing with blogs? Is there any real objective form to them, even if perhaps a renowned author blogs briefly on his own page? Are blogs not just a glorified diary entry?
Perhaps the answer can be found in more traditional print media, medians that have been around for centuries. Despite their objective stance, print media that is created and distributed daily involve a form of subjectivity. Someone's particular 'newsworthy judgement' is involved in the publishing decision. Even a reporter, who usually is contained and somewhat bound by the rules of his industry and company, cannot escape involving his individual predispositions and traits in objective reporting. So perhaps blogging is not so far removed from traditional print media as we may have thought.

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