Comments on: how to blog like an anthropologist http://cultureby.com/2004/08/how_to_blog_lik.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Thu, 17 May 2012 21:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grant http://cultureby.com/2004/08/how_to_blog_lik.html/comment-page-1#comment-7663 Grant Mon, 23 Aug 2004 09:13:57 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1140#comment-7663 Gunnar, thanks for the head's up. It's a great idea for bloggers to monitor one another's ethnographic efforts and to prompt one another to cover things they may have missed. Pepys worked alone and in secret. We can imagine what he might have accomplished if in touch with other like minded observers. Thanks, Grant Gunnar, thanks for the head’s up. It’s a great idea for bloggers to monitor one another’s ethnographic efforts and to prompt one another to cover things they may have missed. Pepys worked alone and in secret. We can imagine what he might have accomplished if in touch with other like minded observers. Thanks, Grant

]]> By: Gunnar Langemark http://cultureby.com/2004/08/how_to_blog_lik.html/comment-page-1#comment-7662 Gunnar Langemark Sun, 22 Aug 2004 03:16:26 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1140#comment-7662 One area of interest is the "blogger communities" - the small networks where a group of people blog, comment on each other, and have a common life in the "atom world" too. This makes the blog a window into their shared lives. You can find that in several settings. In Denmark (where I'm from) there is www.blogbot.dk which gathers a large number of danish blogs - mostly written in danish - and you can find several groups of bloggers there. That is quite interesting as I see it. Another place where I've been lurking and participating a little is at www.blogshares.com, which is an online game - where you can also find a few small groups of bloggers/players who share a community, and who blog and comment each other. Unfortunately some of the older stuff has been lost in a major breakdown of the server. This is a little different though, as they share a common interest in the online game. Blogbot.dk is simply a list of updated blogs, and the people there are not about a certain game - although there are groups with shared interests like the renowned "reboot" conference and the "arena" shared office space initiative. There are other groups though which are not that high profile. I'm certain there are a number of such places. One area of interest is the “blogger communities” – the small networks where a group of people blog, comment on each other, and have a common life in the “atom world” too. This makes the blog a window into their shared lives. You can find that in several settings. In Denmark (where I’m from) there is http://www.blogbot.dk which gathers a large number of danish blogs – mostly written in danish – and you can find several groups of bloggers there. That is quite interesting as I see it.
Another place where I’ve been lurking and participating a little is at http://www.blogshares.com, which is an online game – where you can also find a few small groups of bloggers/players who share a community, and who blog and comment each other. Unfortunately some of the older stuff has been lost in a major breakdown of the server. This is a little different though, as they share a common interest in the online game. Blogbot.dk is simply a list of updated blogs, and the people there are not about a certain game – although there are groups with shared interests like the renowned “reboot” conference and the “arena” shared office space initiative. There are other groups though which are not that high profile.

I’m certain there are a number of such places.

]]> By: Grant http://cultureby.com/2004/08/how_to_blog_lik.html/comment-page-1#comment-7661 Grant Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:05:39 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1140#comment-7661 Steve, thanks for the head's up. I have included it with thanks in the my post for today. Dale, great point, the anthropological trick is to see every datum the world gives you, and to find the way to make it spill it's cultural content. This question would require some ethnographic work, but my guess is that there are some people who are writing for friends, who wish to be kept up to day. But there also others who genuinely believe the finest details of their personal lives are fascinating to all. And this reveals perhaps a species of selfhood that deserves more study. It is impossible to imagine a Victorian sharing this view. How DID we get from there to here. It also suggests a new attitude towards what Goffman called the "management of impressions." Once there was a strick front stage, back stage distinction. There were things we revealed about our selves and much we kept back. In the post war period we have steadily moved the dividing line here, so that now virtually everything is fit for public consumption. There is a bundle of new notions of self, private life, public life ... in evidence here. Great spot! Best, Grant transperancy Steve, thanks for the head’s up. I have included it with thanks in the my post for today.

Dale, great point, the anthropological trick is to see every datum the world gives you, and to find the way to make it spill it’s cultural content. This question would require some ethnographic work, but my guess is that there are some people who are writing for friends, who wish to be kept up to day. But there also others who genuinely believe the finest details of their personal lives are fascinating to all. And this reveals perhaps a species of selfhood that deserves more study. It is impossible to imagine a Victorian sharing this view. How DID we get from there to here. It also suggests a new attitude towards what Goffman called the “management of impressions.” Once there was a strick front stage, back stage distinction. There were things we revealed about our selves and much we kept back. In the post war period we have steadily moved the dividing line here, so that now virtually everything is fit for public consumption. There is a bundle of new notions of self, private life, public life … in evidence here. Great spot! Best, Grant

transperancy

]]> By: Dale Emery http://cultureby.com/2004/08/how_to_blog_lik.html/comment-page-1#comment-7660 Dale Emery Wed, 18 Aug 2004 00:30:33 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1140#comment-7660 I somehow posted that last without my contact info. Here it is. I somehow posted that last without my contact info. Here it is.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cultureby.com/2004/08/how_to_blog_lik.html/comment-page-1#comment-7659 Anonymous Wed, 18 Aug 2004 00:29:06 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1140#comment-7659 Though the <em>content</em> of people's "I went to the bank" entries is not illuminating, is it anthropologically interesting that people choose to write those entries and post them in public? Sometimes the most significant part of a communication is not what the person says, but that the person choses to say it. Though the content of people’s “I went to the bank” entries is not illuminating, is it anthropologically interesting that people choose to write those entries and post them in public?

Sometimes the most significant part of a communication is not what the person says, but that the person choses to say it.

]]> By: Steve Portigal http://cultureby.com/2004/08/how_to_blog_lik.html/comment-page-1#comment-7658 Steve Portigal Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:56:45 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1140#comment-7658 Grant, do you know about http://www.pepysdiary.com? It's Pepys's's's' work (sorry) turned into a blog. Grant, do you know about http://www.pepysdiary.com?

It’s Pepys’s's’s’ work (sorry) turned into a blog.

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