So, my group in class decided that we were going to pursue the thought of blogs as narrative and mediums of self-representation.
Rettberg’s book mentions a few different types of creative blogs. Goal oriented narrative, ongoing narrative, self-exploration, and fiction/hoaxes. I found the last two the most interesting so I’m going to focus on those.
Self-exploration : Although you can say it is about self-exploration isn’t it more like we are just revealing what we want to? It’s like everyday life. We put up a front everyday, we act different ways with different groups of people, yet we act totally different when we are by ourselves. So is a blog dedicated to self-exploration actually exploration or is it just another self-imposed constraint?
Fiction or Hoaxes? Is a blogger telling a fictional story responsible for making sure that the reader knows it is not real? According to Merriam-Webster Online, hoax means: ”to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous.” If that’s the case if you aren’t out to trick someone does that make it okay? After looking at a few sites about responsible blogging I have decided that blogs focused on creative writing don’t really fit into their guidelines. So where do you draw the line on creative blogging?
Interesting Links
10 Rules for Responsible Blogging
Policy for Responsible Blogging
Other interesting sites
Gangrey.com – “Prolonging the slow death of newspapers”
Beyond the end of the road’s blog
Pommel Stone - A book a blog post at a time
