Dear all,
I have been following with interest the discussion about blog versus mailing
list.
I would like to give my opinion, in spite of my bad English, my apologies
for it.
At first I have some experience in this issue because, as you certainly
know, I am working with a newsletter (which is almost a mailing list) and
with a homepage where I publish the important threads of the newsletter
(http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/). I am not working with a blog because
for me it is much more easier to publish on a webpage than to publish on a
blog. I am still using a moden and a phone to connect... My model of work is
working well, I receive many visits to the newsletter's webpage. However I
also have much work because it is me who publishes all the texts, although
the texts are not only mine. To make things worse, I translate into
Portuguese or into English all the interesting texts I receive. The blog
would be a better solution thinking in this way, I would share the work
with all the newsletter members. On the other hand I think that people are
always very busy to participate, writing on a blog and I am sure that is
just because of this that del.icio.us/ is not working as Sue has imagined.
My experience with a blog is not recent. I have worked with a blog in 2001,
when I launched the Project Boundaries
(http://arteonline.arq.br/rio_de_janeiro/) . For me that blog not worked,
very few people contributed to it, but I also think that it was a pionner
blog. Last June Isabel Saij (France) and I just started a new blog
(http://bigsheep.blogspot.com). It is a copyleft project about cloning and
remixing of sheep. Up to now the writing contributions are none, however we
are having very good image, sounds and multimedia contributions. The newest
one is really wonderful: the Big Sheep has now a very interesting son.
Eleven artists (Jeremy Hight (USA), Joesér Alvarez (Brazil), Juliana
Teodoro (Brazil), Isabel Saij (France), Edward Picot (UK), babel (Canada);
Miguel Jimenez Zenón (Spain), Muriel Frega (Argentina), Isabel Aranda *Yto*
(Chile) and I). work collaboratively to build it. The project was imagined
by Alexandre Venera (Brazil) - http://www.eale.hpg.com.br), also he did the
amazing programming. As his mother, the Big Sheep, this project is open
source and it was done with the sheep from the Big Sheep blog. I would like
to invite you to browser at: http://arteonline.arq.br/quixote/ to see
"Quixotes and Sheep" . It is is based on the chapter 18th of the book Don
Quixote by Cervantes. In this chapter Don Quixote thinks that a flock of
sheep is an arm. It works with texts and images what is the issue of this
month in this list. In fact I think it is really a very good example of
digital writing and I would like to share it with you. If you have any
constructive comment, please do not hesitate, let me know it.
To conclude I would like say that for me the interesting to this list is to
have the two options: the mailing list and the blog ( to which I will never
contribute because of my English ;-( ).
Best regards from Rio de Janeiro,
Regina Célia Pinto
http://arteonline.arq.br
http://arteonline.arq.br/library.htm
http://bigsheep.blogspot.com (A NEW Blog - The Big Sheep! Big What?)
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