Comments on: Here’s another analogy http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6133 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Tim Carmody http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6133/comment-page-1#comment-13083 Tim Carmody Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:30:40 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=6133#comment-13083 Andrew Sullivan <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/05/blogging_vs_ser.html" rel="nofollow">said something similar</a>: "Matt Drudge once insisted to me a central fact of the Internet: it's a broadcast, not a piece of writing. Or rather it is writing as a broadcast. The skills for broadcasting - presentation, speed, performance, spontaneity - are not those for writing in the traditional sense. That is partly why I've found the medium so interesting. It really does represent a new, deconstructed, provisional way of writing - halfway between radio and print journalism - and we still don't know where it will end." I think I believe that up to a point. The formula I used for Twitter ("a broadcast channel that carries around its own water cooler") I used first for blogs, which are broadcasts that carry around their own archives. I think, in time, the existence of dated and tagged archives will come to be seen to be a much more essential feature of the blog as a medium. This is what makes <a href="http://snarkmarket.com/2010/5965" rel="nofollow">archive-spelunking</a> such fun. Andrew Sullivan said something similar: “Matt Drudge once insisted to me a central fact of the Internet: it’s a broadcast, not a piece of writing. Or rather it is writing as a broadcast. The skills for broadcasting — presentation, speed, performance, spontaneity — are not those for writing in the traditional sense. That is partly why I’ve found the medium so interesting. It really does represent a new, deconstructed, provisional way of writing — halfway between radio and print journalism — and we still don’t know where it will end.”

I think I believe that up to a point. The formula I used for Twitter (“a broadcast channel that carries around its own water cooler”) I used first for blogs, which are broadcasts that carry around their own archives.

I think, in time, the existence of dated and tagged archives will come to be seen to be a much more essential feature of the blog as a medium. This is what makes archive-spelunking such fun.

]]> By: Audrey http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6133/comment-page-1#comment-13080 Audrey Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:02:27 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=6133#comment-13080 This reminds me of Ariana Osborne's idea that blogs are really radio stations: (cached link because her blog archives seem to be missing right now) http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QfPOYIOEvv8J:www.arianaosborne.com/%3Fp%3D789+ariana+osborne+blog+as+broadcasting&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us This reminds me of Ariana Osborne’s idea that blogs are really radio stations: (cached link because her blog archives seem to be missing right now) http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QfPOYIOEvv8J:www.arianaosborne.com/%3Fp%3D789+ariana+osborne+blog+as+broadcasting&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

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