Blogs and thought
Blogs might be defined as web sites that are regularly updated, have an author's voice, and have some kind of chronological flow. They contain hyperlinks to and excerpts from other blogs or web sites, with commentary and refinement.
In some ways this is a lot like human thought or internal monologue, perhaps more so than other types of writing.
I write articles when I think of them, and then more or less leave them aside from small revisions or corrections. This is a lot like the way I think: one might draft or redraft thoughts before expressing or acting on them, and then they're left behind. Thinking seems to be very associative, very much about taking things other people said or wrote and twisting or commenting on them. Threads happen across blogs, not within a single one, and they twist and spiral around and then fade away — much as a conversation takes place through several minds, each of which sees it differently. As you follow a conversation you might listen to different parts differently, and some parts you might not read at all. This is also like a real life conversation, and rather unlike an email or bulletin board thread.
posted Tue 6 Jul 2004 in /software/blogs | link
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