I attended a guest lecture by R** T******... She is amazing. Unfortunately, I missed a lunch talk that she provided on blogs. She is using blogs as a new way to write theoretical essays. It's quite impressive, and it puts my blog (as well as many others) to shame:
Her Blog
(you'll know who she is after you click on the link and scroll around)
The use of the blog is not new to me, but I often lose sight of it as a scholarly tool. I mainly use it to vent my frustrations and fears or to poke fun at random things. But, to think about the blog as a site for intellectual development and fostering new ideas... well... I suppose that would be its ideal purpose.
But I don't think I could keep an entirely intellectual blog. The temptations of using the blog for its other, more common purposes would slowly creep in. True, that is what other blogs are for, but how often would I update this new, more scholarly blog? Would it naturally take a superior position over my personal blog, the one I barely update at this point? Am I deconstructing my use of blogs (gah!)? ....Well, I suppose that theoretical traces have now slowly creeped into the personal...
Of course, we still have the old question about blogs and blog spaces: they are public spaces that people use to reveal their private thoughts. Are we aware of how public our thoughts are as we write on blogs? Even if blogs are left in "private" or "for your eyes only" modes, there is still the possibility of a site administrator somewhere out there reading our every entry. So, what do we make of this public, yet private form of writing?
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