First post!

In this blog, I will talk about blogs as a mediating technology and try to address some of its cultural effects.

To do that, my first question is, what exactly is a blog? To make sense of the ever-growing number and variety of blogs popping up, I try to stick to what's common among all blogs. A blog exists within the wider digital media, but it imposes a specific form of layout. The layout consists in the linear ordering of user-generated or gathered content, in the form of 'posts', where the most recent posts are usually displayed first.

I think the true 'essence' of the blog media lies in this form of structuring information.


For more on blogs see the wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog