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Critical Thinking

A Defense of Blogging

January 20th, 2010 by Andrew Swenson
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Yesterday Rebecca Thorman contested that “bloggers are not writers” and “blogging is not writing.”

I happen to disagree, but this not really about disagreement. This is about rethinking our basic understanding of writing.

This is about boiling down the underlying implications of Thorman’s ideas in an effort to hold them, to examine them, to test them.

I’m deeply indebted to Thorman’s post and presentation as the start of this conversation, so first: Thank you Rebecca. And now to our point of departure…

Straight-up Snark

Against pronouncing email, blogs “dead”

October 23rd, 2009 by Andrew Swenson
Are email and blogs really dead?

Social Media Killed the Blog Star?

To get straight to the point, I believe email and blogs are not dead, and I’m tired of the countless articles that say they are.

Oh sure, it’s easy to jump on the email/blogging-is-dead bandwagon, but declaring these modes of communication as dead doesn’t accomplish much. Those who are ready to pronounce the death of email and blogging often justify their arguments in one of two ways: (1) with anecdotal speculation, or with (2) a bogus game of semantics.

Both of these arguments aren’t particularly helpful, and here’s why: