There are way too many commentators and folk writing blogs with a couple of minutes to spare focusing on the slipstream. It's out of all proportion. No wonder no one bothers reading anyone any more - just looks for the capsule summary and grading at the top.
isn't that the lot of the commentator to comment on the slipstream? or rather the perceived lot? or is this because writing should be left to the professional or perhaps 'approved' vanguard of writers? or because you can never read 'everything' you want to read on the internet because it's just so dern big and there's so much of it? or that you don't feel your own stuff's being read or given the attention it deserves? or because a lot of the arguments/theories/rants served up on blogs and suchlike have been exercised already that many times, they're knackered but the internet will just keep serving up variants of these ad nauseum?
ReplyDeleteMaybe we'd just rather look at pictures?
I was reading something lately about how the growth of new blogs is slowing down. I think that, for those of us who have been doing it for a while, at first nobody took us seriously because NOBODY was doing it, and then nobody took us seriously because EVERYBODY was doing it. So many people start blogs with good intentions, but then give up after a few weeks or months when they realise the work that is involved. Perhaps we're moving to a place where the "bloggers" are the ones who are in it for the long term, as the ease of twittering and status updates take over. Maybe blogs will become a place for serious criticism.
ReplyDeleteI hope so, anyway.
*puts hand up*
ReplyDeletei have a question, what's the difference between a tastemaker critic and a critic?
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ReplyDeleteI think that Last Year's Girl may well have a point here... anyone have any stats regarding how many people keep their diary going after the first couple of weeks of the new year? Speaking personally, it's far easier to gain feedback (immediate at that) via Facebook or Twitter than by using a blog - and, depending on your social circle, you reach more contacts that way.
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