Blogging at MEA
Collin Brooke,
Collin vs Blog,
Jun 17, 2004
Very nice summary of a panel at the Media Ecology Association (MEA) conference in Rochester featuring featuring Liz Lawley, Alex Halavais, Sébastien Paquet, Clay Shirky, and Jill Walker. Part of the conversation covered academic blogging and introduced some archetypical academic blogging formats: teacher, memex, public intellectual, institutional critic, & diarist. And part of it considered the difference between the specialist blogger, who can easily establish a readership in a niche area, and the generalist, "whose ideas simply defy easy categorization within disciplines. For these kinds of thinkers, finding an audience for their work can be like finding a needle in a haystack."
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