Blogging

Web log. Weblog. We blog. Blog. Blogging. Blogger. Blogspot.

The evolution of the blog, not only in terms of its name but also what it does and what it means. It also continues down different paths. Video Blog to Vlog. etc. Meredith Nelson claims that “blogs are making an important contribution to the pool of human intelligence and turning the Internet into a two-way discussion.” (Nelson, p.5)

But I feel it is more than two-way. This blog is in a sense two-way. Written by me for you. Each post is on a topic I have selected. This is true for a lot of blogs. Yet there are others, posts are written by different members of the group, often leading the discussion down different (and uncharted) paths. Comments steer the further posts, reigning them in or thrusting them out into new territory. Blogs have many different discussions occurring simultaneously. The discussion between members of the blog. The discussion between the blog as a whole and a visitor. This discussion between this blog and a similar blog; “bloggers are all watching each other.” (Nelson, p.7) The discussion between the links on the blog and the blog itself and what they say to each other, how they further the ideas of the blog.

The blog can be a multimedia starting point. A tip of the iceberg. We see ten per cent of an idea or many ideas and then are able to follow those ideas through link after link, until we have eventually created our own unique text. No one person will follow the same set of links or even in the same order. Each time you leave this page to go somewhere else you create your own order, your own series of il/logical connections.