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July 4, 2003

definition of weblog

One of my colleagues was trying to measure blogs (how many, how often, etc.) and i warned her that she had to first develop a concrete definition of a blog because i didn't know of any. Apparently, last week, Jill Walker proposed a definition of a blog for Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Also, read Andrew O Baoill's response. His response is particularly interesting because he argues that blogs always exist in a community context. Thus, blogs are not simply about the production of information, but the role of the reader.

Category: blogging

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Posted by zephoria at July 4, 2003 6:02 PM | TrackBack

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Based on Andrew's trackback, perhaps i misread him. What interests me about blogs is that for the most part, we present ourselves to a context of people, of expected readers (not perhaps actual ones). That "community" shapes what we write. Blogs rarely exist without the notion of readership.