Butch Dalisay’s quick words on what attracts people to blogs and blogging
Alex @ April 10, 2007 | | Internet and Web, Language, Literature |
Sir Butch Dalisay wrote a few things about blogging in his column in the Philippine Star yesterday. He discussed a few points on what attracts people to blogs and blogging. These points include democracy, audience reach, anonymity and flexibility of blogs and blogging.
But what I particularly liked about what he wrote is this passage:
The question some people might raise is, yes, it’s a blog, but is it literature? Of course it is; it’s writing; you just can’t find it on a paper page. Whether it’s good or bad literature depends on what standards have yet to arise for this kind of literature, but I have a gut feeling that bloggers don’t particularly care; 90 percent of blogs may be a digital form of navel-gazing, but hey, it’s my navel. Show me yours, and I’ll show you mine, and that’s all there is to it, at least for now.
I delivered a paper on the same topic in our colloquium class this past semester though mine was more of a cursory look on blogging and literature. My conclusions with that paper is a question on how the Filipino creative writer exploit a flexible tool such as a blog to develop newer forms of writing. But Sir Butch puts it a lot more eloquently in his navel-gazing analogy.
Just sharing.
Tags: Blogging, Internet and Web, Language, Literature
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I think blogging falls under creative nonfiction. The operative word being “creative.”
oh, yes, blogging is a form of literature. is there something like “free flowing literature”? what i mean is a literature different from what we learned in school? my guess is that soon, schools will be integrating “blogging” in their curriculum, at least as an elective.
I doubt UP will make it permanent. Perhaps it’d fall under special topics courses but not like what La Salle does, creating subjects like Harry Potter or what have you (correct me if I’m wrong, La Salle people).
La Salle has Harry Potter? It’s like Harvard and Elvish (correct me if I’m wrong, Tolkien fans)! Oh man… sana mas maraming interesting (pero dapat relevant din) courses na ino-offer din as electives, no? O hindi lang ako aware nung student pa lang ako?
Going back to the subject, like any other form of text, I don’t think blogging in itself can be called literature. I think it’s the quality of writing that counts.
Pambihira talaga technology. Just when you’re about to figure out the workings of one thing, it suddenly comes up with a new and entirely different one.
All blogs are not created equal — so I would disagree that blogs are literature — maybe in the strictest, most technical sense it is — but look at all the conversational blogs out there, the vlogs (video blogs), the company blogs whose ultimate purpose is marketing. Then all magazine articles would be lit too.