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From: emily
Date: Wed Apr 19 12:42:03 MST 2006
Subject: Blogs

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russ: No worries (4/19/06)
KeithB: yeah (4/19/06)

Patricia: name of this game (4/20/06)

Suki: Yeah, but... (4/20/06)

NewRyan: No Subject (4/20/06)

Karen: Touchee (4/20/06)

Karen: Balking at balk (4/20/06)

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Karen: Balking at balk (4/20/06)
Karen: Touchee (4/20/06)
NewRyan: No Subject (4/20/06)
Suki: Yeah, but... (4/20/06)
Patricia: name of this game (4/20/06)
KeithB: yeah (4/19/06)
russ: No worries (4/19/06)

So I was recently reading in Popular Science magazine that "blogs are so 2005". Any thoughts?
EmilyMc.

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From: russ
Date: Wed Apr 19 16:20:02 MST 2006
Subject: No worries

No worries! I have been told by several people that our things are not blogs at all, but something different.
Oh, well.

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From: KeithB
Date: Wed Apr 19 16:34:08 MST 2006
Subject: yeah

Yeah, what we do here is nothing like "real" blogs. Blogging is a much more narcissistic enterprise. If I may generalize flagrantly, the blogger's purpose is to magnify his own personal thoughts and display the magnification to the ether-public. Fundamentally, it is one person deep in scope.
The villagers website is more about the conversation among a group of people. And their pictures and music.
I've had this perspective from the beginning, and I have always been surprised that we used the word "blogs" as the heading over on the right column...
Kb

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From: Patricia
Date: Wed Apr 19 18:18:52 MST 2006
Subject: name of this game

Blog is short for web-log. If we're not using this feature to "log" our thoughts but more to share them, or to participate in a conversation, then what shall we name this cyber writing?
How about "balk" for web-talk? Or "cybersation" for cyber-conversation?

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From: Suki
Date: Thu Apr 20 10:49:19 MST 2006
Subject: Yeah, but...

I agree with the various thoughts on how our blogging setup is actually 'other'. And I'm particularly fond of the term "balking" for what we do (I feel like I've balked at a lot of things in my lifetime. Why not call it what it is?). Although I think "cybersation" might make more sense in general use. Hmm.
However, to get back to the original question, are blogs "SO 2005"? What disturbs me about the Popular Science statement in the first place is the idea that culture has become so quick to change that we must evaluate our choices and lifestyles every month so as to not fall out of fashion (another disturbing concept).
While blogging may be out of fashion for those on the cutting edge of popularity and cyber-ingenuity (are these the people represented by Popular Science?), I would have to say that it is still completely in vogue. Or at least in use. The forays I regularly take into my areas of interest on the web show people still blogging and still receiving feedback, all chiming in on the conversation that happens out there, usually amongst people who don't know each other from Adam.

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From: NewRyan
Date: Thu Apr 20 15:15:09 MST 2006
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Dear Popular Science: Magazines are SO last millenium.

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From: Karen
Date: Thu Apr 20 16:23:39 MST 2006
Subject: Touchee

Ha-ha!
Although the paper copies have their great merits, for example, they work better for bathroom reading. (You know, in the tub... um....)
Maybe bathroom reading itself is so last millenium.

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From: Karen
Date: Thu Apr 20 16:28:45 MST 2006
Subject: Balking at balk

If we're using "balk" for web-talk, it would have to rhyme with chalk or walk or stalk.... = bawk. Bawk. Bawk.
OK, my brain is officially done, now, I think. I'm going to go off & clean my classroom now for the spring Open House tomorrow.
But I'm getting inspired for a poem about balking. For sometime later on.

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