Tag Archives: blogging

Blogs Over?

They are so 2004. According to Paul Boutin, in the November 2008 issue of Wired, personal blogs should be retired. With the dominance of professional blogs, trolls, and time limitations, Twitter seems the obvious choice for the 2008 blogger. He explains: When blogging was young, enthusiasts rode high, with posts quickly skyrocketing to the top [...]

New Media’s Golden Mean; Or, How Do I Post to the Blog, Again, Dr. Lucas?

At times knowledge brings merely an enlightened impotence or paralysis. One may know exactly what to do but lack the wherewithal to act. (Winner “Mythinformation” 594) Janet H. Murray, in her work Hamlet on the Holodeck, discusses the future of narrative within digital environments, and she suggests the importance of “author” to narrative in particular [...]