The Future of Blogging

Created by Catherine Howell (La Trobe University) on February 16, 2006

Plumage from Pegasus, by steampunk maestro Paul Di Filippo.

I HAD TO run a few errands downtown, but I hesitated to go.

What if I ran into bloggers?

Well, my first experience of meeting other bloggers was entirely positive. Still, there was something slightly hallucinatory about the experience. Having reflected on this a bit, I think the strangeness lay not the fact of meeting people face-to-face, when we had a prior social and intellectual connection online (after all, this is not so different from 19th century letter-writers finally meeting up with their correspondents). What was strange was the speed with which our offline interaction was documented, editorialised, and re-presented online. Suddenly our offline meeting had a doppelganger: its online presence or artefacts.

Thanks to Nick Caldwell for the lovely Di Flippo snippet.

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		The Future of Blogging Created by Catherine Howell (La Trobe University) on February 16, 2006 Plumage from Pegasus, by steampunk maestro Paul Di Filippo. I HAD TO run a few errands downtown, but I hesitated to go. What if I ran into bloggers? Well, my first experience of meeting other bloggers was entirely positive. Still, there was something slightly hallucinatory about the experience. Having reflected on this a bit, I think the strangeness lay not the fact of meeting people face-to-face, when we had a prior social and intellectual connection online (after all, this is not so different from 19th century letter-writers finally meeting up with their correspondents). What was strange was the speed with which our offline interaction was documented, editorialised, and re-presented online. Suddenly our offline meeting had a doppelganger: its online presence or artefacts. Thanks to Nick Caldwell for the lovely Di Flippo snippet. future technology \| Science Fiction \| Tea-Break Catherine's blog Login or register to post comments 4407 reads
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