Posts Tagged ‘blogs as literary form’

Blogging: New Era Publishing (Why Do It, What’s Different Now)

Monday, October 20th, 2008

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There’s a fascinating and thoughtful article on “Why I Blog” by Andrew Sullivan, a senior editor of the Atlantic. (Thank you, Terry Whalin, for pointing this out.)

Sullivan’s thoughts on how blogs are an emerging literary form all their own are fascinating. Particularly interesting to me is his contrast between blogging and what he refers to below as “the alternative” and I call “old era publishing”:

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