tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post1986233171241671668..comments2024-03-14T13:06:38.883+00:00Comments on cultural snow: In order to save the mainstream media it became necessary to destroy itTim Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-48088352394133740932010-10-21T07:12:10.462+01:002010-10-21T07:12:10.462+01:00It was old news to many of us, Witness, but it see...It was old news to many of us, Witness, but it seems that plenty are still catching up. I regularly encounter educated people who need to have the word "blog" defined.<br /><br />I did start a purposeful blog, BWT, but got bored. Whereas the meandering one is closing in on its fifth birthday.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-70008962216047710712010-10-20T23:59:42.348+01:002010-10-20T23:59:42.348+01:00These days more blogs are begun with a purpose in ...These days more blogs are begun with a purpose in mind, than for general meandering wittering.<br />All end up the same way though.<br />Or is that just me?<br /><br />(Brought to you by the word verification: rugstud. I like it. Are we talking carpet burns or Brucie's thatch?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-652977250524446212010-10-17T16:20:27.679+01:002010-10-17T16:20:27.679+01:00As someone who has been blogging since October 200...As someone who has been blogging since October 2000 - exactly ten years plus two days, as a matter of fact - when Blogger was the only option, regularly fell into unexplained downtime, and didn't have any comments, I do think the number of *personal* blogs has shrunk. The numbers are still there, but the vast majority are no longer being updated. The vibrant personal blogging has moved on a generation, and I am told (by 16 and 17 years olds) that it's big amongst teenagers. I guess my contemporaries and I are too long in the tooth, and can only just manage to motivate ourselves to update Twitter and Facebook.<br /><br />To our viewpoint, then, blogging - which was frowned upon by the media for so long - has been well and truly co-opted by them now. Look at newspapers and broadcasters and how many blogs they have between them. Companies too. Blogging has well and truly gone overground.<br /><br />So the amazing thing to me was reading <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/oct/08/blogging-media-events-conferences" rel="nofollow">this</a>, about an upcoming panel debate at the Festival of Ideas, which will discuss "what blogging is" and aim to answer such questions as "is blogging journalism?" I seem to have a distant memory that we discussed this almost ad infinitum in 2004. And 2005. 2006, too. Though I think the subject was becoming a bit old hat in 2007.An Unreliable Witnesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14793797429064159501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-20214402766992842472010-10-17T16:05:10.965+01:002010-10-17T16:05:10.965+01:00Perhaps one day Ms Winkleman will delight us with ...Perhaps one day Ms Winkleman will delight us with her Scotch eggs, BBiro.<br /><br />Green Day minus the success and the smackability, Rol.<br /><br />Annie: :-)))))))))))))))<br /><br />MWB: I've filed his book next to "Play Better Darts" by Stevie Wonder.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-13068428752031313542010-10-17T06:02:38.061+01:002010-10-17T06:02:38.061+01:00Perhaps Roger Ebert could lend me some advice on h...Perhaps Roger Ebert could lend me some advice on how to prepare pickled onions in a rice cooker...E. Studnickahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08831185856061207596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-49316098333240260292010-10-17T00:07:46.155+01:002010-10-17T00:07:46.155+01:00oh no, by your analogy, I wish I could be Poly Sty...oh no, by your analogy, I wish I could be Poly Styrene but fear I'm more like, er, Toyah. <br /><br />By the way, blogworld is in fact expanding. Look who has made a triumphant return!<br /><br />http://professionalspinster.blogspot.comAnniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15941917503687179585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-16860673768377114512010-10-16T14:57:34.533+01:002010-10-16T14:57:34.533+01:00I miss Barry Norman too. Things were so much simpl...I miss Barry Norman too. Things were so much simpler back when everybody was only allowed to have one opinion about everything. Nowadays nobody can agree about anything.<br /><br />Following your blog=punk rock analogy, I feel a bit like Green Day or one of those American punk bands who tried to revive the genre in a fake and overblown way after all the cool originals had either died or sold out.<br /><br />Well, Green Day minus the success, obviously.Rolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02103804480646939038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-53068580217072903912010-10-16T06:51:06.596+01:002010-10-16T06:51:06.596+01:00Pickled onions? Pickled onions What's he doing...Pickled onions? <i>Pickled onions</i> What's he doing pickling onions when his country needs him?<br /><br />(Nothing against onions, but that's like saying Mother Theresa has gone into the dog-grooming business or Stephen Fry is working in MacDonalds... <i>You want Frys with that?</i> )broken birohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233920262119205474noreply@blogger.com