Show Me Your Context, Baby: My Love Affair with Blogs is Kate Baggott’s trAce award piece on blogging positioning blogging against literature and discussing its merits as its own medium. The piece is thought-provoking, but the image is outright eerie.

“In lieu of charisma, bloggers possess a magnetism that would repel in any other medium. Bloggers are like the smart and difficult students who interrupted every lesson with sarcastic commentary and passed their exams with audacity and contempt for their schools, their subjects, their teachers and the exams themselves. They do not write for audiences or according to deadline. They comment because they have something to say.”

[FYI: it’s a New Media style piece and assumes some knowledge of theorists like McLuhan and Postman.]