tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post6946946487440484789..comments2024-03-18T16:55:31.971+00:00Comments on This Space: Blogblog: on litblogs and critblogsStephen Mitchelmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658772259307446873noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-29554809560674265412008-10-08T19:38:00.000+01:002008-10-08T19:38:00.000+01:00Well aren't you a well read and interesting fellow...Well aren't you a well read and interesting fellow (not an ironic remark). I got here via a 2005 entry about Adam Phillips. What I'm dying to know is, whatever happened to Nick?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04078994618276557422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-68081674791642045102008-10-04T09:00:00.000+01:002008-10-04T09:00:00.000+01:00The more there is to read does not mean that there...The more there is to read does not mean that there is more reading. But the fact there is only one who reads is enough.William Largehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03426378379775621952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-53248784205695121682008-10-03T21:50:00.000+01:002008-10-03T21:50:00.000+01:00I would like to propose categories along the lines...I would like to propose categories along the lines of Whatinthefuckisheonaboutblog. One of the distressing detriments to blog categorization is that they miss out on a good blog's vital qualities: namely, the crazed perspective of the blogger.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15074668048574265560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-81990406662180261192008-10-03T02:16:00.000+01:002008-10-03T02:16:00.000+01:00"Modernism is still to come."And still to come, an..."Modernism is still to come."<BR/><BR/>And still to come, and still to come, and still to come.<BR/><BR/>How will we recognize it upon its arrival?Finn Harvorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05120886779348342519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-15820144107178493802008-10-02T07:44:00.000+01:002008-10-02T07:44:00.000+01:00Are bloggers free? Or are they like people writing...Are bloggers free? Or are they like people writing from some prison? Like maybe the prison of a communications industry, a newly autocratic media, that has totally taken over, via the computer.Lloyd Minternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13152240716731277055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-16645701247464745562008-10-01T14:35:00.000+01:002008-10-01T14:35:00.000+01:00I am interested by this taxonomy but I think there...I am interested by this taxonomy but I think there is an other way of dividing up blogs: into those which are written by professional writers and those by people who are not [yes, yes, the whole notion of blogging is to subvert this essentially commercial distinction]. The former may be using their blogs (as I do) for mixed motives, sometimes to advertise their wares or activities, sometimes to make general literary comments or criticisms. The latter are more "pure" in the sense that they write for no ulterior motive but an interest in literature and in understanding it more clearly. Their freedom from prevailing "potatohead" norms is their great strength and their critical freedom sometimes unsettles the writers of repute because to these the blogosphere seems a dangerous place of free thought and uncensored opinion whereas they live in a world controlled by sanctioned views, publicists' fixing, literary editors' predictable choices and rankings (and exclusions). I see no way of turning back: the literary blog is here to stay and the crappy ones are the price we pay for the excellent ones like This Space.Nicholas Murrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07189263209323471368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-3877082815838599562008-10-01T03:42:00.000+01:002008-10-01T03:42:00.000+01:00"How many blogs have been written in order to open..."How many blogs have been written in order to open the way for what blogging has replaced?!" <BR/><BR/>No doubt most. But surely there must be more required than this ulterior motive to keep one going? An intrinsic love of the process...of reading, recording and responding to that which fascinates? of the connection, albeit limited, which can come from such activity?NigelBealehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06094387597632333192noreply@blogger.com