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Blogging, or "Life on Line"...
A young acquaintence of mine recently shared with me his blog on Tumblr. Apparently, tumblr is a cross between blogging and tweeting. It is a short-form blog with an emphasis on the visual. Many of the pages I looked at were nothing but images...striking..but without context or explanation. I noticed that my friend had accounts of Facebook, Myspace, Livejournal, and Twitter. But he said virtually nothing on any of them. Which leads me to wonder...1,000 years from now, how will future archeologists examine what we are doing now on the internet? How will they examine what the everyday person does on the internet? There's nothing solid to examine! Is there some grand repository containing billions of twitter messages saying things like.."Star Trek Rocks" or "Meet me at Starbucks"? Or will blogging and social networks places be footnotes in the history books recorded like episodes of St. Vitus dance from the middle ages?
A young acquaintence of mine recently shared with me his blog on Tumblr. Apparently, tumblr is a cross between blogging and tweeting. It is a short-form blog with an emphasis on the visual. Many of the pages I looked at were nothing but images...striking..but without context or explanation. I noticed that my friend had accounts of Facebook, Myspace, Livejournal, and Twitter. But he said virtually nothing on any of them. Which leads me to wonder...1,000 years from now, how will future archeologists examine what we are doing now on the internet? How will they examine what the everyday person does on the internet? There's nothing solid to examine! Is there some grand repository containing billions of twitter messages saying things like.."Star Trek Rocks" or "Meet me at Starbucks"? Or will blogging and social networks places be footnotes in the history books recorded like episodes of St. Vitus dance from the middle ages?
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