{"id":1190,"date":"2004-05-06T09:17:43","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T09:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/05\/06\/blogging_out_of_context.html"},"modified":"2004-05-06T09:17:43","modified_gmt":"2004-05-06T09:17:43","slug":"blogging_out_of_context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/05\/06\/blogging_out_of_context.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogging out of context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reflecting on <a href=\"http:\/\/interconnected.org\/home\/2004\/04\/28\/on_social_software\">Matt Webb&#8217;s post<\/a> on designing social software, <a href=\"http:\/\/dream.sims.berkeley.edu\/~ryanshaw\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/03\/blogging-out-of-context\/\">Ryan Shaw realized<\/a> the significance of one of his lines: &#8220;Outside the context of [their creation], most of the weblog posts just don&#8217;t make any sense.&#8221;  He argues that this is a pretty damning criticism of blogging as a serious alternative to journalism.<\/p>\n<p>If i think of my own posts, very few are ever written to be used elsewhere.  They are set of rambling commentaries based on what&#8217;s in my head and the only relevant context is me. The information that is useful to others is often the information that is part of an ongoing dialogue.  Of course, it&#8217;s frustrating when you try to collect those thoughts.  They require a massive rewrite to be truly valuable long-standing.  What is it about this format that doesn&#8217;t permit us to collect our efforts into a coherent package?  I mean, for centuries, professors turned lectures into books.  Of course, they required editing too.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think of what i&#8217;m doing as journalism, but i do recognize the problems with persistence of information.  As far as whether or not this is a damning critique&#8230;. i wonder if journalism is better off in a dialogue?  I wonder if that means it&#8217;s a different kind of journalism?  I mean, as much as i go back and read old newspapers, the information has a social\/political context that&#8217;s really hard to get when you read back.  So, even if the text makes sense, that doesn&#8217;t mean a lot isn&#8217;t lost.  (Ah, Benjamin on translation&#8230;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflecting on Matt Webb&#8217;s post on designing social software, Ryan Shaw realized the significance of one of his lines: &#8220;Outside the context of [their creation], most of the weblog posts just don&#8217;t make any sense.&#8221; He argues that this is a pretty damning criticism of blogging as a serious alternative to journalism. If i think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}