lindsaydotcom ([personal profile] lindsaydotcom) wrote2006-09-15 10:59 am
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Are Lindsay's friends bloggers, or just journal-keepers?

I'm going to a lecture next month at my university which will be about how society views online forms of blogging differently. Specifically, the lecture announcement states: In the popular imagination, there is a distinction between "blogs," which are assumed on some level to be doing public work, whether political, techincal, academic, or journalistic, and "online diaries," which are primarily personal, if not exactly private. These personal blogs are too often dismissed as the narcissistic rantings of teenage girls and other hysterics, a nonsensical--and not incidentally, hyper-feminine-- form of "oversharing." Such a dismissal, however, overlooks the important work that such personal blogs are doing in the construction of an emergent literary form...

My question to you is:

Do you see yourself as

a) A blogger

b) Someone who just happens to have an online journal/ diary

c) Neither/ other (explain)

Just curious...

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