Joint blog with Susana Tosca to prepare article on autobiography, biography and the web.
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01:46
by Lisbeth Klastrup
History will be kind to me, for I intend to buy it drinks. [The Autoblography]
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05:12
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Documented Life - An Autodocumentary by Miles Hochstein - an entire autobiography in pictures...with some text!!!
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08:07
by Lisbeth Klastrup
A CNN article on misbehaviour online:CNN.com - Sex, mob hits: Sims tests virtual morals
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06:24
by Lisbeth Klastrup
BadFeed - blog which is turning into a relationship break-up story quickly, but he writes some interesting stuff in the beginning (late November 02) about trying to by anonymous and hiding old blog from girlfriend etc. Funnily enough, Frank Schaap of Fragment.nl easily tracked him down and "exposes" him in his blog. Which neatly goes to show that you are never guaranteed anonymity, at least not if you choose to write from your own domain!
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04:27
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Atplasticbag.org - articles you can find several articles on web culture and publishing.
Posted
10:15
by Lisbeth Klastrup
cameron marlow (electro publisher, mit media lab) - he is doing research on blogs, often quoted, and also created Blogdex (??)
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10:05
by Lisbeth Klastrup
as if softly caressed by a ghost
Who am I today?
Unwashed hair, yesterday's mascara, filhy and baggy clothes, a look of tiredness and a cigarette in one hand and an Irvine Welsh novel in the other. I look exactly as trashed as I feel.
And I don't have anyone I can call to scream please help me.
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06:44
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Living in the Blog-osphere - one of the more thorough, recent articles on bloggin. Via Frank.Interesting because it focused more on the "non-descript", non A-List blogger, more diary-kind of type person.
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06:20
by Lisbeth Klastrup
I was just looking for a quote by Proust in Danish when I came across this webpage. It is an autobiographical essay (in Danish) about recovering from serious mental illness, an extraordinary piece of writing. Natten og Gryet (Night og Dawn).
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08:11
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Internet Resources on biography - intended to help people find the "proper" biographical resources online.
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08:04
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Biography Writing Service - for only a small fee they write your biography....
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07:48
by Lisbeth Klastrup
biography-center indexes 11291 biographies ! - hereby 5000+ in English.
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07:47
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Biography Assistant - this site dedicated to the amateur biography writer. As starting point you can choose whether your subject is alive or dead! Or yourself...
Posted
07:27
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Armarium - Weblog: Danske Blogs - En liste over danske weblogs - this is to my knowledge the most thorough site of Danish weblogs so far.
Winthers weblog has a distinction between Danish weblogs and the others (including some of us blogging in English).
http://www.netliv.net/links/andrelogs.html
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07:23
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Psykisk Syg - this is a webpage of a mentally ill Danish Person. She also has a online Diary. http://www.risle.dk/dagbog.htm.
Posted
07:15
by Lisbeth Klastrup
H-Town Blogs - a community blog (Houston Area Blogging Community) - they also do off-line stuff together!
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07:13
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Shmuel's Soapbox -- Index page - another blogger via FW - not so interesting, but here he defines himself via these links: "Who am I", "Why am I here", "What other journals do I read"...
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07:06
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Ladybug's Garden - another of the French woman's noted blogs. Asian Woman in Canada - seems to be some circle of those blogging....Interesting is also her banner for "Ladybug", underneath it, it says: Link me, link me. I have seen quite a few of this "link to my weblog" banners around lately. People are obviously doing an active effort to get more readers - in this way, the weblog is definitely different from the private diary (would you consciously take it to your family so they could read it??)
Posted
06:46
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Examples of names of journalwriters, the young depressed: murder, corrosivehead, boy-ashamed, dumpsterbaby, cryinsilence, misplaced embryo...
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06:39
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Mistreated young depressed person link page (former name of journal was dead-sin....)
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06:37
by Lisbeth Klastrup
"these are the diaries i read:"
In the early days of the personal webpage a person would typically be charactised by their choice of links poiting to various sites of interest on the net, considered as "cool", or "something about dogs which I love", "fanclub of X celebrity" etc - links thereby supplementing or expressing certains interests and tastes of the writer in question. Today, what characterises a journal user is still the choice of links, however the links now mainly point to other journal sites; i.e. the person is characterised by the interest in the life of certain other people. So the depressed teenager will link to journals of other depressed teenagers etc.
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06:19
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Cecilie Larsen's journal - young Danish girl, member of Gryphon's Guild. RL diary, but very closely related to her Guild character and friends, too.
Posted
06:11
by Lisbeth Klastrup
I can fly diary by Danish Woman Siff, been writing since July 2000.
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06:06
by Lisbeth Klastrup
The official adventures of Ann and Lyle Højbjerg-Clarke - example of very mundane life "diary" of mixed married couple, using the diary to "to keep in touch with family and friends around the world".
Posted
06:00
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Diaryland! - diary tool with the ugliest colourscheme in late web history!
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05:55
by Lisbeth Klastrup
FootNotes: A Cyber Journal American Female Single Mum Ex-alcoholic's Diary.
Posted
05:53
by Lisbeth Klastrup
diarist.net | registry - currently listing 5505 online diaries, personal weblogs etc. Listed by country.
Posted
05:51
by Lisbeth Klastrup
aiyah, scribbles of ancient chinese secrets Asian Woman's Blog, since december 2000. Been taken to hospital lately, which gave rise to 30 comments from readers!
Posted
05:43
by Lisbeth Klastrup
The French Woman's links:
bunt sign - Ordinary American Male chronicling his life since Jan 2000. He has a "bio" side page where he gives a conventional biographical description of himself, complete with pictures of various stages of his life. His first paragraph says: "You can probably get to know me better by reading the entries than by anything you're likely to find here, but I'm willing to provide some background, for quick reference purposes", so that the weblog, his everyday thoughts on everyday things, are more relevant to get to know "the real Michael" than the official facts. The last two paragraphs are also revealing:
"I've been writing in paper journals almost every day since December, 1986. The entries were similar to what you'll find in bunt sign. I've changed a few names and omitted some details, and I've reviewed and revised the way some things are written. And I've tried to make a virtue of getting older by drawing on what I've learned over the years. I can't say I'm any wiser, but I'm more patient, with myself as well as others. Otherwise, the style and content of my online journal doesn't differ much from what I've always written privately.
Why do I do this? It's fun, and sometimes it's therapeutic. I thought I might meet some new people, but I've made so many more friends than I ever dreamed possible. My voice here has changed a bit over the time I've been writing online, but my hope is that it's been for the better. I'm not an accomplished web designer (obviously), but I still hope to get better at it with time. Of course, the best thing would be to get a life worth writing (and reading) about. I'm still working on that."
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06:44
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Thoughts related to O'Connors book on Biographers:
selecting: should one leave out the inappropriate facts (that seemed to be the early view)
(my example: story of man writing blog on wife and being published in news paper without consent: he clearly thought of his writing as "private" to a certain extent)
biography as the representation of just one voice or several voices -
the dialogic approach is possible - as a constant questioning of the objectivity of the facts laid forth as seen in Nathalie Sarrautes "Enfance" (this is not something O'Connor discusses in what I have read)
to which degree can biog. use anecdotal and personalised conversation as ingredient in his portrait? Blog can be seen as a new genre of personalised conversation...??
O'Connor says (p 7)
"..one of the first tasks of the biographer - to provide his reader with an insight into the personality as well as the acchievement of the subject"
His main point would be that biographers come in two forms:
those, who do the "bonum", i.e. amass a lot of information about their subject but do not select in it (the collectors) - the craftsmen. 19th century biographers would gather info mainly by looking at the "outer" facts of the portrayed persons life, later biographers (this century) would also partake of personal interviews and archival material.
those, who do the "pulchrum", i.e. those who both gather the info but also selects among it in order to give as precise a portrait as possible of the biographed, or as Connor just a wee bit normatively puts it "the essence of the real man". That is, Connor seem to think that the good biographer is an artist himself: in order to give the "right" impression he must carefully select what and where he places people on his canvas. Subjectivity is not only not avoidable, it is a prerequisite for the good biography.
Posted
05:50
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Blogs and Pulitzers - another input in the "why people write blogs" discussion.
Posted
05:48
by Lisbeth Klastrup
The Blog Phenomenon - February article in PC Magazine on blogging. Probably one of those articles that got the entire meta-blogging discussion going. Anyway, whether you agree or not, journalist John Dvorak lists these reasons why people blog:
"Ego gratification. Some people need to be the center of attention. It makes them feel good about themselves to tell the world what important things they've been doing and what profound thoughts they've been having. Curiously, while this looks like the most obvious reason for a Web log, I think it's probably the least likely reason, since it's too trite and shallow.
Antidepersonalization. When people begin to think that they are nothing more than a cog in the wheel of society, they look for any way to differentiate themselves. The Web log proves they are different. Just read it. You'll see.
Elimination of frustration. Day-to-day life, especially in the city, is wrought with frustration, and the Web log gives people the ability to complain to the world. You get to read a lot of complaining in these logs. If you think I'm a complainer, oh boy!
Societal need to share. As a cynic who gets paid to write, I have a hard time with this explanation. But it seems some people genuinely like to "share," and this is one way.
Wanna-be writers. A lot of people want to be published writers. Blogs make it happen without the hassle of getting someone else to do it or having to write well—although there is good writing to be found. Some is shockingly good. Most of it is miserable. I expect to see those Open Learning classes around the country offering courses in Blog writing."
Posted
05:27
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Journal of US (?) writer Douglas Clegg. Writes print books of what appears to be the horror-thriller genre. (Previous writer did Haiku!)
Posted
05:23
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Tools for Writers - site which claims to help writers develop and share. Includes blog and Wiki. --- hmmh, surfing site reveals that it is hardly up and running and actually project of Uni of South Florida writing class, i.e. aimed at helping students write. But the idea is good...:)
Posted
07:36
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Btw, a very interesting thing is that hardly ANY Danish writer maintains a webpresence. One could speculate a bit on that.
An exeption is Arne Herløv Petersen.(http://herlov.dk/)
Posted
07:33
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Distant Sun blog (http://distantsun.blogspot.com/) - the young academic: "biographing" Eliot??. Broken of into two: the private blog (Distant Sun) and the purely academic, 6th Edition (http://6thedition.blogspot.com/).
Posted
07:27
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Jill writes about Michael Joyce withdrawing his web-presence - yet maintaining it. Might serve as an interesting example.
Posted
07:25
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Found old mail from the editor: max 2000 words!
We told him:
"and we would like to write an article which takes its point of departure in 2, but also relates to some of those issues you mention in 1, as we both feel that we are more well-informed on II. It could be interesting to discuss the concept of the individual self on the net, and various forms of self-expression such as weblogs,webcams and webforums and relate that to a discussion of how to archive "texts" like that and to study the "life and self" of artists who have used mainly the web to express themselves. If you can OK this approach, we will start working on the article soon."
Kristian Editor wrote:
As I see it there are two problems to address:
1: How has the web influenced the biography: which kind of data is disappearing with the web, which kinds are emerging, how has the new media influenced our way of thinking of the individual and history in general etc.
2: How has the web influenced the autobiography: everybody is their own publisher, the possibility to confess, the view into everyday live, the thoughts of the selected individual etc. Here weblogs are obvious and interesting subject.
Posted
07:22
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Selector/collector:
for the biographer, the web presents a wealth of material - an infinite mass of data to collect - but related, increasing complexities of the process of selecting. On a more theoretical level, the webpresence of a person one might want to biography is also problematic: whereas the print "diary" for instance is always read in retrospect and perhaps only by the discerning biographer, online writing in a weblog (what some would say it the netage's equivalent of the diary) is instantly published and read - leading one would think, to an more aware presentation of self - and hence the lack of a truly "private" writerly self for the biographer to refer to.
Posted
07:10
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Here is a link to the German writer I mentioned. His name is Matthias Politycki. The site is called Novel3 - or novel in progress. It is in German, and my reading skills are rusty, but looks like it is still up and running.
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02:30
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Via JIll, a bloggpost on bloggs as Loci Amoeni (gardens).
Re being notified of changes in the blogg, perhaps we should use Jesper's bloggwatcher tool?
Posted
05:23
by Lisbeth Klastrup
You should be able to delete posts yourself, just take it into edit-mode and use the delete-option! The x-identity is gone now, though :)
Posted
06:07
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Dear Diary Revisited . Mark B writes If you're wondering about the future of blogging-as-autobiography, check out Dear Diary Revisited, an intriguing article by Elayne Zalis about the late history of women's autobiographical videomaking, in which Zalis discusses the use, in videography, of multiple narrative arcs to tell a single life story.
Posted
07:32
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Now set to European time!
Posted
07:29
by Lisbeth Klastrup
Lance's mirror site on Jan 10 compares the weblog to the commonplace book we know from last century.
Posted
07:27
by Lisbeth Klastrup
This blogg is meant as a resevoir and discussion forum on autobiography, biography and the web as a means of preparing an article on this subject for the Danish magazine Standart.