{"id":45669,"date":"2021-05-13T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45669"},"modified":"2021-05-12T08:44:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T12:44:53","slug":"qotd-blogging-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/05\/13\/qotd-blogging-2\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>A wire story consists of one voice pitched low and calm and full of institutional gravitas, blissfully unaware of its own biases or the gaping lacunae in its knowledge. Whereas blogs have a different format: Clever teaser headline that has little to do with the actual story, but sets the tone for this blog post. Breezy <em>ad hominem<\/em> slur containing the link to the entire story. Excerpt of said story, demonstrating its idiocy (or brilliance) Blogauthor&#8217;s remarks, varying from dismissive sniffs to a Tolstoi-length rebuttal. Seven comments from people piling on, disagreeing, adding a link, acting stupid, preaching to the choir, accusing choir of being Nazis, etc. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s a throwback to the old newspapers, the days when partisan slants covered everything from the play story to the radio listings, but this is different. The link changes everything. When someone derides or exalts a piece, the link lets you examine the thing itself without interference. TV can&#8217;t do that. Radio can&#8217;t do that. Newspapers and magazines don&#8217;t have the space. My time on the internet resembles eight hours at a coffee shop stocked with every periodical in the world &mdash; if someone says &#8220;I read something stupid&#8221; or &#8220;there was this wonderful piece in the <em>Atlantic<\/em>&#8221; then conversation stops while you read the piece and make up your own mind.<\/p>\n<p>James Lileks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/02\/1002\/100202.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bleat<\/a>, 2002-10-10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wire story consists of one voice pitched low and calm and full of institutional gravitas, blissfully unaware of its own biases or the gaping lacunae in its knowledge. Whereas blogs have a different format: Clever teaser headline that has little to do with the actual story, but sets the tone for this blog post. 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