Thursday, July 14, 2005

qu'est-ce qu'un blog?

Is it a way of communicating to different groups, like shouting into a mobile whilst on a busy bus, or is it something more personal? When a friend tells me that Bataille's On Nietzsche is 'just like a kind of blog', it seems absurd for me to try to find out what a blog is by reading the book; that's getting things the wrong way round.
Perhaps it would be easier to uncover what a blog is by looking at some (which I have done. Vaguely). The key to an interesting blog is tone. A good blog deals with everyday matters without being inane, with theoretical issues without getting lost in the abstract, with political issues without coming over all, er, dogmatic...

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