Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 354.
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[1] From: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk> (37)
Subject: Re: 17.347 serious blogging
[2] From: "Jessica P. Hekman" <jphekman@arborius.net> (14)
Subject: Re: 17.347 serious blogging
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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 06:36:28 +0000
From: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 17.347 serious blogging
Greetings,
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> From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mk235@umail.umd.edu>
> >
> I think there have (already) been quite a few examples of Web
> publications going to print, from mainstream to academic to underground:
> Salon, in fact, has a whole line of such publications:
> http://www.salon.com/plus/reads/index.html; the electronic journals
> Postmodern Culture and Bad Subjects have both published print
> compilations; and at the underground end of the spectrum, David Rees's
> Get Your War On cartoons.
I can't help feeling they don't count, and the reason for that is that
the question Willard asked -- ``is this the first example of a primary
Web publication reduced to print for commercial publication?'' -- may
not be precisely the most interesting one.
Salon publishes high-quality journalism. It's mediated by the web
rather than paper, and it therefore has to navigate slightly different
freedoms and restrictions, but it still exemplifies the basic model of
an organisation employing writers, building an audience, and selling
the content.
Similarly journals like Postmodern Culture and the Bryn Mawr Classical
Review (and for that matter the majority of current STM journals) are
basically conventional journals that have simply switched medium, just
as their predecessors arguably did when they switched from epistolary
networks to the published proceedings of learned societies. Thus if
they occasionally dip back into print that's hardly surprising.
Perhaps, then, the interesting thing is whether the Baghdad blog or
the various paper FAQs are `the first example of a primary
_online_form_ reduced to print for commercial publication'.
> This may well, however, be the first example
> of a _blog_ to print publication,
Indeed!
All the best,
Norman
-- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK norman@astro.gla.ac.uk--[2]------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 06:37:03 +0000 From: "Jessica P. Hekman" <jphekman@arborius.net> Subject: Re: 17.347 serious blogging
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:
> Perhaps Salam Pax's first is to have the first book that has taken this > route that is nothing to do with computing. And _that's_ a curious
> Get Your War On cartoons. This may well, however, be the first example > of a _blog_ to print publication, something I'm sure we're going to see > a lot more of. Also only a matter of time until we see see blog-style > novels, just as there were a handful of epistolary email novels a few > years back. Matt
Neil Gaiman published his blog (the account of the process of writing, publishing, and promoting _American Gods_ -- and, therefore, having nothing to do with computing) in _Adventures in the Dream Trade_ a year or so ago. _Adventures in the Dream Trade_ also included essays and short stories, but the bulk of it was his blog.
j
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