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Genevieve Tucker on Book Blogs in The Australian
Genevieve Tucker, who blogs at ”reeling and writhing,” writes about Book Blogs in The Australian (“Online, Everyone’s a Critic” Dec 6th). It’s a thorough conceptual introduction. Here’s my favorite quote:
But book bloggers are not in all this just for news about writing, which admittedly they enjoy. Even at the large global gathering place that is Bud Parr’s remarkable site, Metaxucafe, it’s the conversation with other readers that is bringing them back again and again to share their considered readings and thoughts, rather than a constantly shifting, shimmering page of book news and snippets of the here and now.
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I remain annoyed with myself that I did not punctuate MetaxuCafe appropriately in that piece. One of a few oversights…
Thanks again for the link, Bud. I don’t know if you realise this, but I had not yet opened a print version of the paper when I saw your posts online. (I got one from the milkbar at 7.15 am).The conversation continues 
– genevieve (12/06 at 08:53 PM)
I wrote this to Genevieve, but I’ll say it here, too: she’s clearly found the answer to all those annoying articles making fun of bloggers. If we want to be represented accurately, we need to write the pieces ourselves. That seems like the clearest way to bridge the gap. That an the increasing blogospheric presence of print journalists--Jerome Weeks of BookDaddy, James Marcus of House of Mirth--who seem to get the difference between blogs and print and also seem like both forms…
– Anne Fernald (12/08 at 10:00 AM)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: December 05, 2006
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