From the "How did I miss this?" file comes Dave Winer's Scripting News entry dealing with that overriding question: What's a Blog?
I loved every word of it including these highlights:
"People use blogs primarily to discuss one question -- what is a blog? The discussion will continue as long as there are blogs. It's no different from other media, all they ever talk about is what they are."
I see his point. Work-at-homers blog about the process of blogging and working and reading other blogs. Moms blog about parenting . . . and blogs. And artist-bloggers blog their opinions on all sides of the blogger issue, including what constitutes a "real" art blog and whether one or another is too commercial or too naive or too self involved. Oy.
But we're not alone. Dave reminds us that reporters, while decrying bloggers because we do so much talking about other bloggers, but spend their own time talking about other reporters . . . when they're not talking about bloggers.
"In the early days we joked that they were watching us watch them watch us watch them. And so on."
And so it goes. But if anyone is talking about us - or blogging about us - it means someone's paying attention.
Links
- Blogging about Blogs
- Time Magazine
- Wordpress: Blogs about Blogs
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