{"id":296,"date":"2005-08-14T18:58:38","date_gmt":"2005-08-14T23:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2007-11-09T11:24:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T16:24:41","slug":"dream-big-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Dream big, bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I was idly browsing the Web, looking at different blogs. Generally speaking, people have a very limited conception of what might go on a blog. Personal confession and strident political commentary seem to be the dominant content in blogs, with a very few people experimenting with other genres of writing. I&#8217;m especially interested in &#8220;place blogs,&#8221; where the author of the blog gives you little portraits of where he or she lives. I like writer&#8217;s blogs, too, especially where the writer posts work in progress.<\/p>\n<p>But imagine if Charles Dickens were alive today. I think a blog would be a great format for some of his novels, which after all were serialized when they first appeared. Which got me to thinking about blogs I&#8217;d like to see&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A blog written by a fictional character about his\/her fictional life.<\/li>\n<li>A blog by a real person about his\/her travels in a fictional place.<\/li>\n<li>A blog of literary or arts reviews (by multiple authors).<\/li>\n<li>A &#8220;historical blog,&#8221; written from the point of view of a historical figure as if s\/he were blogging in her\/his own era, a sort of blog re-enactment; e.g., a Plimoth Plantation blog, a Civil War soldier&#8217;s blog, etc.<\/li>\n<li>A blogicization of Dante&#8217;s Inferno, or Defoe&#8217;s Journal of a Plague Year, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Or best of all, something that&#8217;s just plain new and different.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Strident commentary and personal soul-baring have barely begun to tap the potential of blogs. Dream big, bloggers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I was idly browsing the Web, looking at different blogs. Generally speaking, people have a very limited conception of what might go on a blog. Personal confession and strident political commentary seem to be the dominant content in blogs, with a very few people experimenting with other genres of writing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}