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Blog Evolution →
Laura writes:
Political blogging has changed a lot since I first started blogging six years ago. I first wrote about the changes in the blogosphere last July and received a lot of attention from that post. I rewrote that post into an essay, but I’m not sure what to do with it. So, here it is: Download Blog Evolution - McKenna
Speaking of evolution, I hadn’t noticed: Typepad now has a ‘reblog’ feature. Adapt, or else…
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version 3.0 →
I made a new blog layout! Hopefully easier to navigate, more fun to read. I lifted elements from a couple of Tumblr themes, added a bunch of my own, and tweaked (and tweaked) CSS. CSS control is one of my favorite aspects of Tumbr (ironic, since if you’re on Tumblr once you start ‘following’ a tumblelog and have it in your dashboard you can go a long time without looking at its layout).
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One For The Tumblr Wish-List
An option to specify a custom slug for the ‘notes’ next to your name/avatar when adding text to a reblog.
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"Both insular and extroverted, the easy ability to repost from the blog of another produces a curious shared scrapbook [and] the pleasing sense of a community engaged in inspiring itself out of a self-induced torpor."
- “Insp.” by Jackson Boxer for Dossier (via britticisms)Reblogged from BRITTICISMS -
Blogger Agonistes
Emily finds that book-editing has adversely affected her blogging:
I do think that blog-writing is a different kind of writing than edited printed-matter writing [but now] I keep doubling back and second-guessing and tweaking my word choices and my grammar in even the most basic (i.e., m-dash-free) of sentences…
At some point during this process… I lost the heedless confidence that is necessary to blog-writing. This heedless confidence, you may have guessed — or if you have a blog, you may already know – is the blog-writer’s Achilles heel, and also his greatest strength. (That’s where his strength is! In his heel!)
Like any writing made time-sensitive by deadlines or audience expectations, blogging is somewhat inimical to the editing that books, poems, short stories and feature-length articles are subject to and (theoretically) improved by. But anyone who’s sat through the arguments that can take flight in writing workshops knows that not all editing is created equal. And without deadlines we get Chinese Democracy and Profane Friendship. Like Emily, I’d take posts by Choire Sicha (or Alex Balk or Moe Tkacik or Laura McKenna) over many bound books or articles in the MSM.
Read on →
