blogs, blog art and the network
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Blogs, blog art and the network
Anne Helmond
Mostly It Happens At Night: Event 2. January 11, 2009. Amsterdam.
Part I: From homepages to blogs
Documentation of the self: Personal homepages
My personal homepage in 1996
Documentation of the self: Personal homepages
My personal homepage in 2001-2002
Features of the personal homepage
• Fairly static and closed self-referential environment
• Content stored in one place
• Based on the unit of the page
• Required HTML knowledge
The introduction of blog software
Reverse-chronological order: latest on top
Automatic indexing by search engines
Default settings show the hidden network
Constructing identity online: The blog
• [...] blogs as sites for identity construction and self-invention and have underlined the unruly multiplicity of the social identity online (Paasonen 2002: 22).
First draft of a blueprint of Web 2.0 data flows from one single user
First draft of a blueprint of Web 2.0 data flows from one single user
Features of the blog
• The blog is a database
• The blog is not a closed environment
• Based on the unit of the post
• Focus on freshness and links
• Reverse-chronological order
• Does not require HTML knowledge (unless...)
Default settings show the hidden network
The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You
© Wired/Infographic: Build
Part II: Blog art
Different types of blog art
• Blog as portfolio
• Blog as collection of the distributed self
• Blogging (network) experiments
Blog as portfolio
Blog as collection of the distributed self
Blogging (network) experiments
• Technique (JODI - http://blogroll.jodi.org/)
• Form (Seth Keen - Videodefunct)
• Network (Jonathan Harris - We Feel Fine)
Technique: Jodi - Blogroll
Form: Videodefunct - Pedestrian
(In)visible network: Jonathan Harris - We Feel Fine
Networked blog art
