Submitted by Anne Dalke on Sun, 08/12/2007 - 7:26pm.
When we talked about blogging in the Summer Institute last week, the focus was on open-source methods of judgment, replacing the free exchange of ideas, once done in books, with on-line backing-and-forthing...
So, as Serendip begins to explore the new terrain that is Exchange, I'm puzzled and curious: what's the difference between a blog
and "a place for me...to keep track of what I'm currently up to"? Is
the former more inter-active (a conversation with others), the latter
more intra-active (a conversation w/ oneself)? Does thinking aloud on a blog make one somehow differently responsive to others than one might be in an on-line journal? Is a blog somehow different than the asynchronous exchanges already taking place on Serendip and elsewhere on the web? And do both hold themselves less accountable to those we might meet face to face?
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When we talked about blogging in the Summer Institute last week, the focus was on open-source methods of judgment, replacing the free exchange of ideas, once done in books, with on-line backing-and-forthing...
So, as Serendip begins to explore the new terrain that is Exchange, I'm puzzled and curious: what's the difference between a blog and "a place for me...to keep track of what I'm currently up to"? Is the former more inter-active (a conversation with others), the latter more intra-active (a conversation w/ oneself)? Does thinking aloud on a blog make one somehow differently responsive to others than one might be in an on-line journal? Is a blog somehow different than the asynchronous exchanges already taking place on Serendip and elsewhere on the web? And do both hold themselves less accountable to those we might meet face to face?