Why I Blog - Andrew Sullivan - The Atlantic - 4 views
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For a long time, columns were essentially monologues published to applause, muffled murmurs, silence, or a distant heckle. I’d gotten blowback from pieces before—but in an amorphous, time-delayed, distant way. Now the feedback was instant, personal, and brutal.
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Brett Boessen on 29 Oct 12Instant Feedback -- blogging is the gamification of authorship?
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The form was more accountable, not less, because there is nothing more conducive to professionalism than being publicly humiliated for sloppiness.
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The blog remained a superficial medium, of course. By superficial, I mean simply that blogging rewards brevity and immediacy
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