Tag Archives: blogger

What is a ‘blogger’?

Chris Castiglione | 14 July 2009, 1:25 pm | 4 comments | tags: , ,

The definition of a blogger is commonly given as “someone who maintains a blog”. Yet on many sites, including Wikipedia and Dictionary.com, ‘blogger’ does not have its own page, ‘blogger’ forwards to the page for ‘blog’. This week I made an attempt to define ‘blogger’ on Wikipedia…

Salam Pax’ The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi.

Rosa Menkman | 17 September 2007, 9:13 am | tags: , , , ,

This summer I was part of the Digital Methods Initiative, a summer school program that aims to contribute to doing research into the “natively digital”. One of the projects I participated in was: Diagnosing the Condition of Iraq: The web view. The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi (2003), is a nice case to both broaden and ground this…

Wait – what’s a blog again?

Pepijn Uitterhoeve | 18 May 2007, 10:15 pm | 12 comments | tags: , , , , ,

In an ongoing discussion on a forum I got into a scuffle with a formidable opponent about what blogs exactly are. I tried parroting all that I had been taught in various classes during the BA and MA courses in New Media; basically that weblogs are a form (as argued by Albert Benschop in class at one point) and not…

Nurturing and death in Web 2.0

Twan Eikelenboom | 08 May 2007, 12:09 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

I thought I’d just try it, see what happens to myself when I don’t post for a while on my own blog. Although it isn’t that interesting for the readers of a blog, you should definitely try it. Because when a blog becomes a McLuhanesque fixed charge in your life, the only way to see what has changed…

Google and Blogger, please stop localizing me!

Anne Helmond | 16 April 2007, 11:42 am | 16 comments | tags: , ,

While writing a piece about the Ubiscribe event on my own blog I went to Blogger’s website. Blogger automatically localizes me based on my IP-address and welcomes me in my own language. Google does the same thing when I go to Google.com it automatically redirects me to Google.nl. Even though I can see the…