I Get This Guy To Think For Me
Jun. 1st, 2006 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
f4f3If anyone hasn't friended Bruce Sterling, go off and do it now.
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/brucesterling/
As well as being the second most well known survivor of Cyberpunk he writes great novels, and is his blog is full of "mordant wisecracks, travel snapshots, art weirdness, flarf poetics and Bollywood obsessions"
This paragraph in his journal today really made me think about what we're doing here in the Blogosphere, what the product of all our typing is, and if we should be proud of it.
"After spending some years here in blogdom, I'm increasingly sure now that blogs are not a literary means of expression. By their nature, blogs are platforms for tech development. That is their "intrinsic advantage." Even if some blogs emit books ("blooks"), blogs are not about books. Blogs are about long tails, invisible tails, architectures of participation, commons-based peer production and crowdsourcing. Blogs by their semantic nature are aggregative mini-Internets. Even if run by theorists, blogs don't produce "theories" but "theory objects." If you don't believe me quite yet, well, just wait and see. The elephant is marching out of the haze, and soon we will see it revealed in its full, stark, hairy, mammoth proportions"
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/brucesterling/
As well as being the second most well known survivor of Cyberpunk he writes great novels, and is his blog is full of "mordant wisecracks, travel snapshots, art weirdness, flarf poetics and Bollywood obsessions"
This paragraph in his journal today really made me think about what we're doing here in the Blogosphere, what the product of all our typing is, and if we should be proud of it.
"After spending some years here in blogdom, I'm increasingly sure now that blogs are not a literary means of expression. By their nature, blogs are platforms for tech development. That is their "intrinsic advantage." Even if some blogs emit books ("blooks"), blogs are not about books. Blogs are about long tails, invisible tails, architectures of participation, commons-based peer production and crowdsourcing. Blogs by their semantic nature are aggregative mini-Internets. Even if run by theorists, blogs don't produce "theories" but "theory objects." If you don't believe me quite yet, well, just wait and see. The elephant is marching out of the haze, and soon we will see it revealed in its full, stark, hairy, mammoth proportions"
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Date: 2006-06-01 04:26 pm (UTC)I quite like crowdsourcing as a neologism, though I am not sure I agree that blogs are "platforms for tech development" - that implies some form of intention.
Still, I have stopped thinking of my personal implementation of LJ as a blog - it is much more like a diary, as the name "Live Journal" implies.
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Date: 2006-06-01 08:20 pm (UTC)Word again
I saw that today and grr, it was so annoying - I mean, you can make anyone's blog look like the biggest bunch of aresewipery in the known universe, and to come down on men for idle chat and referring jokingly to their partners just seems...perverse.
For all the Guaridan wants to understand blogs, I don't think they really do: or else their 'blogosphere' (hack hack yeuuurch) is defined narrowly as political punditry only. (which is why they don't find many women...)
Although I agree with her over the horror of men squeeing about attractive women. That's just disgusting and perverted.
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