Posts on “Blogging & Social Media”

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“I don’t dismiss fiction because of Tom Clancy anymore than I dismiss online criticism because of Amazon customer reviews.”

- Stephen Mitchelmore in response to James Wolcott

“Someone with an interest in the internet’s effects on literature and the rise of the blogosphere might naturally appreciate the 18th century English pioneers of the newspaper and essay (Addison and Steel’s The Spectator, for one) and maybe read a little bit of Jurgen Habermas’ Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, which resemble nothing so much as the ultimate fulfillment of quintessentially 18th century ideas about the periodical press as a virtual space for rational debate on subjects of public interest, a space in which all who desired to participate, regardless of class, were allowed.”

Emily Colette Wilkinson on the benefits of looking backward in literature

“Smarts, not platform, is what matters.” – Wired Magazine on Dzanc Books (congrats, Dan)

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“This Jeremy Denk is a voice that, effectively, could never have been heard before the advent of the Internet: sophisticated on the one hand, informal on the other, immediate in impact. Blogs such as this put a human face on an alien culture.”

- Alex Ross on classical music on the Web



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