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March 02, 2007
The Wall Street Journal has a piece by Jennifer Saranow about live blogging personal events that's entertaining, provocative, and ends with an anecdote about the Accordian Guy, Wendy Koslow and AKMA. It's a nicely done piece, although I'm not satisfied with its main explanation of why people live blog everything from births to funerals. Jennifer seems to view it as a type of narcissism. But all writing in public is narcissistic —"Hey, listen to me!" — and I'm not sure that live blogging is especially so. For one thing, frequently live bloggers are writing about other people's events. I don't have an alternative hypothesis to offer. Live blogging is inexplicable enough that it seems likely to be an indicator of a more important fault line in how we're constructing public and private spaces. Or something. [Tags: live_blogging blogging blogs wsj everything_is_miscellaneous ] Posted
by D. Weinberger at March 2, 2007 12:04 PM
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Comments
This is a great "beme" on the very nature of blog-propelled memes!
Posted by: Ari | March 2, 2007 12:43 PM
Hi David!
Jennifer seemed a little bit astonished about some of the things I said about the whole continuous partial attention thing. I think that most non-bloggers/geeks would be. I think I remember a member of my family seeing the entry to which Jennifer refers and saying, "You really have to tell them not to bring their laptops??!!"
Well, yes.
Posted by: Wendy | March 6, 2007 10:53 AM