Chuck, George, and (for different reasons) Joel have left me wanting more words. They conjure dry spells.
Though this is a seeming nonsequeter non sequitur, Apophenia pointed to this blog research survey. Basic questions: Why do you blog? Does it matter if anyone reads it? Would you continue if they didn't?
(I won't answer- at least not now, though you might guess my motivations).
Why? is a good question. It should be asked every once in a while. It keeps one honest, if not self-aware.
p.s. how do you spell non-sequeter? Thanks!
Oh, alright.
The answer to all of the questions on the survey is "C"
Posted by: weez at March 17, 2004 03:42 AMnon sequitur
Posted by: nain at March 17, 2004 09:48 AMthank you, seester
Posted by: weez at March 17, 2004 09:55 AMIt's spelt "Non sequitur".
Basic questions: Why do you blog?
I don't. I read and write and comment and produce stuff that is published through the WWW. I do this serially.
Does it matter if anyone reads it?
In writing it I read it. The writing and drawing is not just for communicationg what is already known. It is also a means of exploring and thinking. Gertrude Stein is famously noted for having declared "I write for myself and strangers." This question might be paired with a second "Does it matter that I get feedback from those that do read it?" I think a while ago in response to Benny, Weez contrasted a "cluster" with a "readership".
Would you continue if they didn't?
I think the question of continuing is related to the type of cycle that fits in one's personal and professional life: daily, weekly, monthly. I also think that there is a difference between producing material and publishing it. As a "comment blogger" I value the archival aspects of blog records. I also separate out the serial nature of blog publication from its periodic nature.
Jill Walker at jill/txt also has some thoughts about breaks... http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/archives//break.html
and she and her readers have commented on breaking a break...
http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/archives/games/homage.html
Reading that interchange, one is left with a playful view of the temporality of the audience-participant relation.
There is a rhythm to the academic blogs (and to the feedback they generate) and a lot of that rhythm is conditioned by the cycling of slots of time available or dedicated to teaching - research - experimentation.
If I am fond of mentioning that we blog on borrowed time, I am also aware that the moment becomes a window...
See http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/archives/world/patterns_thankfully_disrupted.html
quote: [with typo silently corrected]"A calendar is like a map. And just as maps have insets, calendars in the 21st century might have 'moments' expressed in local time and 'windows' expressed in global time."
I think that in answering the questions about a creator's relation to audience, it might well be worth thinking about two types of audience memebers: those that share the moment and those that share the window. And worth remembering that some of those moment and window sharers might inhabit the same body.
Posted by: Francois Lachance at March 17, 2004 09:59 AMOn the one hand: http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/
On the other:
I blog because I like to write, because I have friends that *do* read it, even if they don't respond (I fault LJ's not being friendly to non-LJ'ers for that), because I've found I like posting photographs, and because the entire experience is cathartic.
(unless, of course, the question was rhetorical, in which case, just read the comic strip)
...
Well, I'm sort of new to the blog world. Why do I blog? I blog because I've always been better expressing what I'm thinking in writing. Not that I'm lacking the area of speech. It's just nice to be able to put down what you're thinking without having someone look at you and wonder what you're really trying to say (although, I'm sure there are still people doing that, but I don't have to physically see it).
Does it matter if anyone reads it? Not really. The blogs out there publicly for people to view my thoughts, but if no one read what I had to say, I feel better having written them down.
Posted by: Amy at March 17, 2004 07:40 PMThis blog started as a dare. I told Brendyn he could link to me if I did it every day for two weeks. So the writing is like my going to the gym. Something to do each day, and with time (I hope) it gets better.
In hindsight, there is value for me to see my head space plotted over time.
I'd do it whether or not anyone read it. It's become another ritual - a good one.
That anyone reads it is still novel. That more people are reading it is slightly alarming. That anyone comments is always a trip, because it happens in no predictable way, and what people say always surprises.
Posted by: weez at March 17, 2004 08:53 PMJust wondering how the daily ritual of blog writing or attending the gym can produce the tactics to assist in the occassinal public speaking "live" so that the speaker is not drained and dispirited. I ask beacuse it so happens that the paired reading for today connects this blog entry on doldrums and breaks with and entry dated June 24, 2003 about a presentation at the HighEd Web Conference [Higher Education Web Professionals of NY].
http://weez.oyzon.com/archives/000019.html
Blogging as a practice that incorporates its own break points reminds me of what Ti-Grace Atkinson writes about in "Untitled: Some Notes Toward A Theory of Identity". It was some word play in the paired entry that suggested to me the thematics of Metaphysical Cannibalism, another essay/speech by Atkinsion and one that references the notes where one reads this: "In terms of the artisitc process, the artist has literally an infinite and necessarily unique number of materials to select from: the perception of objects alone or in combination from memory, of objects (animate and inanimate) outside itself, of relationships (e.g., cause and effect, orderings), and so forth. The fulfillment of human potential would be the sense of completeness through a discrete temporal ordering. Every moment of one's life wold have the characteristic of intactness, therefore, of completion. There would be, in theories of consciousness, therefore, some significance to the notions of past, but not of future."
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