Comments on: Blogging - a post modern diary or just kitsch http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/01/blogging-a-post-modern-diary-or-just-kitsch/ Pontydysgu.org Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:24:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Cristina Costa http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/01/blogging-a-post-modern-diary-or-just-kitsch/#comment-1118 Cristina Costa Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:07:34 +0000 http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/01/blogging-a-post-modern-diary-or-just-kitsch/#comment-1118 Dear Jenny, Thank you for the great reflection. I had never thought of blogging in that way, and now that you mentioned it…blogging can be a little bit of both… sometimes….depending on the context and on its authors’ activity. I have found many different types of blogs and people who blog for the most diverse motives, being some of them more kitsch than others… But what I like about blogs –and I may be suspicious about it since I support the blogging activity – is the fact I can “access” other people’s minds and thoughts in a communicative way, making my reflections also available to them. It is the sharing and flow of information that are appealing to me. The texts published on the blogsphere should supposedly be different from people’s private journals, which presumably are concealed and unilateral. Blogging, on the other hand, is all about opening the communication channels. However, I recognize that there is still a lot to be learnt on how to preserve and establish our digital presence, and when people fail to understand that, that is when it gets quite kitsch-ish!  But like I said, I had never thought about this blog-dichotomy: kitsch vs post-modern. And I have always thought about blogging as part of the natural technological evolution…the new ways through which we communicate, and as part of a new, digital society, which, as you mentioned, is celebrated by the younger generations. (Are thy the pioneers?). In my mind you are a natural blogger. You write with such fluency and your writing is really enjoyable to read, which is something that always appeals to me as a blog reader. I don’t like when people try to make it too contrived by writing in a very academic way. I don’t think that is the purpose of a blog. Yet, your reflection is so meaningful and intelligently expressed. I wish I could write like that. Dear Jenny,
Thank you for the great reflection.
I had never thought of blogging in that way, and now that you mentioned it…blogging can be a little bit of both… sometimes….depending on the context and on its authors’ activity.
I have found many different types of blogs and people who blog for the most diverse motives, being some of them more kitsch than others…
But what I like about blogs –and I may be suspicious about it since I support the blogging activity – is the fact I can “access” other people’s minds and thoughts in a communicative way, making my reflections also available to them. It is the sharing and flow of information that are appealing to me.
The texts published on the blogsphere should supposedly be different from people’s private journals, which presumably are concealed and unilateral. Blogging, on the other hand, is all about opening the communication channels. However, I recognize that there is still a lot to be learnt on how to preserve and establish our digital presence, and when people fail to understand that, that is when it gets quite kitsch-ish! 

But like I said, I had never thought about this blog-dichotomy: kitsch vs post-modern. And I have always thought about blogging as part of the natural technological evolution…the new ways through which we communicate, and as part of a new, digital society, which, as you mentioned, is celebrated by the younger generations. (Are thy the pioneers?).

In my mind you are a natural blogger. You write with such fluency and your writing is really enjoyable to read, which is something that always appeals to me as a blog reader. I don’t like when people try to make it too contrived by writing in a very academic way. I don’t think that is the purpose of a blog.
Yet, your reflection is so meaningful and intelligently expressed. I wish I could write like that.

]]> By: Kerrie http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/01/blogging-a-post-modern-diary-or-just-kitsch/#comment-1095 Kerrie Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:00:09 +0000 http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/01/blogging-a-post-modern-diary-or-just-kitsch/#comment-1095 The question of why we blog, why some people are almost compulsive bloggers, what we get out writing the blog, and what we get out of reading the blogs of others is one that interests me greatly. I have been touching on it off and on over on my own blog. I have a blog that I write for work, and recently I have started another entirely different one for my crime fiction reading interests. having added visitor counting utilities etc., I am finding my reading blog is almost becominga compulsion. I'm close to thinking that blogging assures us of an audience, helps us feel connected, but I'm still a bit overawed by the mechanisms by which we find each other. The question of why we blog, why some people are almost compulsive bloggers, what we get out writing the blog, and what we get out of reading the blogs of others is one that interests me greatly. I have been touching on it off and on over on my own blog.
I have a blog that I write for work, and recently I have started another entirely different one for my crime fiction reading interests. having added visitor counting utilities etc., I am finding my reading blog is almost becominga compulsion.
I’m close to thinking that blogging assures us of an audience, helps us feel connected, but I’m still a bit overawed by the mechanisms by which we find each other.

]]> By: Blogging IT and EDucation » Blogging - a post modern diary or just kitsch http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/01/blogging-a-post-modern-diary-or-just-kitsch/#comment-1089 Blogging IT and EDucation » Blogging - a post modern diary or just kitsch Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:37:38 +0000 http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/01/blogging-a-post-modern-diary-or-just-kitsch/#comment-1089 [...] or just kitsch 1I really ought to be getting on with my marking, but I've just been skim reading this post by Jenny Hughes on Graham Attwell's blog, , and 2 Which, of course is in total opposition to the cultural myth called ‘education and [...] [...] or just kitsch 1I really ought to be getting on with my marking, but I’ve just been skim reading this post by Jenny Hughes on Graham Attwell’s blog, , and 2 Which, of course is in total opposition to the cultural myth called ‘education and [...]

]]> By: Andreas Auwärter http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/01/blogging-a-post-modern-diary-or-just-kitsch/#comment-1084 Andreas Auwärter Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:37:05 +0000 http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/01/blogging-a-post-modern-diary-or-just-kitsch/#comment-1084 Ohh Jenny - you are great and inspiring. And going directly to your finalizing question: Yu could triple blend your answer. Depending at your point of view, depending what it means for you (and maybe, perhaps, ... others) and last but not least depending what you make out of. (Which is your benefit you will take ....) So thinking so it could be a public diary - it could be valued as artificial kitch or could be valued as a think tank - you share with others. Or maybe thats near the trouth a mixture of all! ;-) Loveliet greetings from the rhine and moselle river and its 'confluentes'. Ohh Jenny - you are great and inspiring. And going directly to your finalizing question: Yu could triple blend your answer. Depending at your point of view, depending what it means for you (and maybe, perhaps, … others) and last but not least depending what you make out of. (Which is your benefit you will take ….) So thinking so it could be a public diary - it could be valued as artificial kitch or could be valued as a think tank - you share with others. Or maybe thats near the trouth a mixture of all! ;-) Loveliet greetings from the rhine and moselle river and its ‘confluentes’.

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