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on Bloggers and the Global Mashup Fantasy (Jason Epstein)

“Though bloggers anticipate a diversity of communal projects and new kinds of expression, literary form has been remarkably conservative throughout its long history while the act of reading abhors distraction, such as the Web-based enhancements—musical accompaniment, animation, critical commentary, and … Continue reading

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Go Read: The Storialist

The Storialist features a new poem each work day inspired by (and linking to) a photograph or work of art found on the web. Good idea and some great poems. Check it out.

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Blogs, Forms, and Abecedariums

As a quick glance over this blog (or Ruminate) will make clear, I’ve yet to figure out the forms that are my own best fit for blog writing. I feel intuitively that there’s an undiscovered, Platonic form out there in … Continue reading

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Sni.ps?

A month or so ago Scott Leslie posted about Sni.ps a service for enhancing web clipping and attribution for “serious bloggers.” I’m out of the serious game, but I’ve been trying Sni.ps out and find myself in a familiar quandary: … Continue reading

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Does Adam Kirsch Get It?

[photo by midorionna] I can’t decide if Adam Kirsch really, really gets it or if he’s so wrong that he’s almost bent back around to righzt, wormhole fashion. The whole essay on writer’s aspiration, fame, and the age of blogs … Continue reading

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Lightening Up

And not just my skin, though we are down to just over 4 hours of daylight and not a lot of that is quality time with The Great God Sol. After a few weeks of rumination, scheduling and unscheduling, re-prioritizing, … Continue reading

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Birkerts on Literary Blogging

Says Sven: “For as exciting as the blogosphere is as a supplement, as a place of provocation and response, it is too fluid in its nature ever to focus our widely diverging cultural energies. A hopscotch through the referential enormity … Continue reading

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Writers and Bloggers

Man writes bland article about Paul McCartney for the New Yorker. Blogger comments on article’s blandness. Much unintended hilarity ensues. The funny lesson here is that the “writer” who is upset comes off looking so poorly prepared for his job, … Continue reading

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Incisive Analysis?

If only a few more blog entries could approach Anscombe’s potent blend of incisiveness and brevity…

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