back to "blogs" for a quick one
I know we're long past the discussion on blogs, but a story on BBC this morning caught my eye for a particular phrase ... after being censored for writing hard-copy text, one of the Iranian people speaking in the story turned to blogging (the story reports more than 46,000 blogs coming from Iran) "because I felt free and uncensored... ." Bloggers are being collected as criminals in Iran right now, and certainly efforts to control freedoms of expression are not new, but the sense that the blogging environment was somehow outside the purview of censorship is an interesting aspect of the event. Nations may come to a new kind of struggle for controlling their "properties" in much the same way as producers of media now struggle for ownership. In this way the questions revolving around identity and the location of identity - Burnett's hybid person - may raise issues of global concern not easily anticipated.
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Can we get past the discussion of blogs, particularly when we're using blogs to discuss...
Dis/engaging worldplay of the sense of blogs, it came up in a blog disgustion yesterday --when some students said they felt too bogged down in their work to contribute much to the blog-- that a blog is un/just a bog...
And what are bogs but swamps...
Swamped with work.less!
Becoming a Swamp Thing!
When I mentioned this, another student posted a comment concerning Yoda and Degoba.
Degoba is Yoda's homeplanet-homepage.
As to Degoba and Iran, the distance between these two issues appear as GALAXIES apart. The sense of blogs from the perspective of govts like Iran-North Korea-China ... as Mary points out... opens onto an entire quagmire... And yet, the inside-outside of such blog-bogs for users could not but be more lively, and one suspects that just as with *real* swamps that there are many who are beginning to make a space for themselves in terms of how they will use blogs.
To the extent that bloggers seek such a space, I wonder if there is not a sense of IDENTITY that nevertheless is still very much a part of blogs, despite notions of the HYBRID. ...indeed, is there something in Hybrid that still harbors Identity?
Yes, it is true that govts are concerned about the proliferation of blogs. And yet, there is, too, local enforcements ... tribes, gangs, bands, communities... that seek to DEVELOP the blog-bog... To make it something more than just a swamp of mucky-muck...
And yet, swamps --as with rainforests-- make and un/make itselves through composition and decay...
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