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Submitted by John, Jun 13, 2007 13:45
However, Kirsch is casting aspersion on all blogs when, as you say, he is referring to a handful of them. He says blogs are only good for bite-sized comments when you admit blogs can be used for full length essays. None of the comments he makes about blogs apply to all blogs.
Blog software has been used for newspaper style sites -- Huffington Post, for example. How does one differentiate between a post on Huffington Post by any one of their writers and an Adam Kirsch article on this website?
The only difference -- possibly -- is one is looked over by an editor and the other isn't. (I have no idea if the articles are or are not edited at HP) There is nothing that prevents prior editing of blog posts on blogs by editors. (I've edited posts by other writers on a group blog before.) Content is not what differs. The process the content goes through can differ -- but doesn't need to. The only thing that differs is the presentation -- and the presentation of the articles on this site and a blog are remarkably similar.
A high quality literary blog may not exist out there. But Kirsch argues it can't. And he is wrong. Because there are no real structural differences in a blog that prevents identical material appearing in it that appears in a newspaper.
Finally, you may argue a newspaper will result in better material than most unedited/self-edited blogs, but I've seen some poorly edited newspapers in my life. And I've seen professional looking material on blogs.
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