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So this is timely. Greg Knauss wrote up his thoughts on the distinction between referential bloggers and experiential bloggers, inspired by his experiences as a guest blogger on kottke.org.
The referential blogger uses the link as his fundamental unit of currency, building posts around ideas and experiences spawned elsewhere: Look at this. Referential bloggers are reporters, delivering pointers to and snippets of information, insight or entertainment happening out there, on the Intraweb. They can, and do, add their own information, insight and entertainment to the links they unearth—extrapolations, juxtapositions, even lengthy and personal anecdotes—but the outward direction of their focus remains their distinguishing feature.
The experiential blogger is inwardly directed, drawing entries from personal experience and opinion: How about this. They are storytellers (and/or bores), drawing whatever they have to offer from their own perspective. They can, and do, add links to supporting or explanatory information, even unique and undercited external sources. But their motivation, their impetus, comes from a desire to supply narrative, not reference it.
It puts into words a shift in focus I’ve been planning for Invisible City for some weeks. To date, this blog has been referential, which I find hard to keep fresh. I am a writer, and what I want to post is experiential.
So that’s what’s been percolating in my head. Watch this space…
— Sharon J Cichelli :: icp
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So this is timely. Greg Knauss wrote up his thoughts on the distinction between referential bloggers and experiential bloggers, inspired by his experiences as a guest blogger on kottke.org.
The referential blogger uses the link as his fundamental unit of currency, building posts around ideas and experiences spawned elsewhere: Look at this. Referential bloggers are reporters, delivering pointers to and snippets of information, insight or entertainment happening out there, on the Intraweb. They can, and do, add their own information, insight and entertainment to the links they unearth—extrapolations, juxtapositions, even lengthy and personal anecdotes—but the outward direction of their focus remains their distinguishing feature.
The experiential blogger is inwardly directed, drawing entries from personal experience and opinion: How about this. They are storytellers (and/or bores), drawing whatever they have to offer from their own perspective. They can, and do, add links to supporting or explanatory information, even unique and undercited external sources. But their motivation, their impetus, comes from a desire to supply narrative, not reference it.
It puts into words a shift in focus I’ve been planning for Invisible City for some weeks. To date, this blog has been referential, which I find hard to keep fresh. I am a writer, and what I want to post is experiential.
So that’s what’s been percolating in my head. Watch this space…
— Sharon J Cichelli :: icp
Commenting is closed for this article.
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