Do we have a list of poetryetc blogs? Or other goodies??
P 'interested
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Sent: 25 March 2010 08:55
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Subject: Re: blog writing
With Alison and Andrew here too: I like blogs with long texts and lots of
information - Jerome Rothenberg's or Pierre Joris's for example.
On 25 March 2010 06:04, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yep, I'm with Alison - it's a matter of what you're writing about and for
> whom. My blog is just a self indulgent hobby, communicating my views and
> news to friends and like-minded people (who read it in the strangest
> places,
> I might add!). A day of over a hundred hits is a major spike!
>
> As a journalist, I learnt by doing - but mainly worked as a CD in
> advertising, notching up campaigns which influenced you to buy more than
> you
> needed. The standard of journalism here in the West (and in 'The West') is
> appalling - but you know that.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 25 March 2010 13:55, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I'd beg to differ with you here, Chris. There is no one way to write
> > blogs, and what it is will depend on what it is for. My blog is one of
> > the most widely read independent - ie, not attached to a major media
> > outlet - theatre blogs in the world, and it's made me into the critic
> > of record here. And I write long essays, occasionally up to 3000
> > words. It's actually why people go there - in my blog, and a few
> > others around the traps, they can find the kind of in-depth analysis
> > they can't find elsewhere.
> >
> > Just for the record, I have the journalism training - I trained as a
> > cadet (four years) on the Melbourne Herald and for decades have worked
> > all over the place in the print media, as a reporter, sub and now
> > critic. And in my small niche, what I do works very well.
> >
> > xA
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > > Since I have been doing this blog thing I have a feeling that most
> blogs
> > > I have seen appear, shall we say, not really understanding the media
> > > format that they are using.
> > >
> > > What I remember seeing most in blogs are long pieces of prose, over
> > > several screen pages. From my perspective, including my formal
> training,
> > > this seems very much a mistaken understanding of the media you are
> > > writing with, in this case a blog.
> > >
> > > Blogs need shorter, single screen pieces. Blogs are more like news
> paper
> > > or magazine journalism, where even with feature articles, this can be
> > > broken up to screen size chunks.
> > >
> > > Not sure if this makes sense and of course to be fair most blog
writers
> > > don't have the sort of training I have had access to. Long pieces of
> > > prose are the way most people seem to write in without questioning the
> > > form. Journalism works with small chunks of text pasted together, so
> > > requires a writing technique made available only to a few trained
> > > professional writers. There's a problem here but can't expand more.
> > > (Type out a short news article, that is a good way to get a feel for
> > > this style of writing. The inverted pyramid; where, when, what, how,
> why
> > > eeks hope that's correct. You delete from the end to fit around the
> > > ads.)
> > >
> > > --
> > > I have chronic fatigue syndrome so I may be delayed in my reply. Just
> to
> > > let you know, that's all. Chris Jones.
> > >
> > > Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
> > Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
> > Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
>
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