{"id":35,"date":"2008-03-11T14:32:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T20:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/2008\/03\/11\/yawning-burping-puking-blogging\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T20:41:35","slug":"yawning-burping-puking-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/2008\/03\/11\/yawning-burping-puking-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Yawning. Burping. Puking. Blogging."},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a review on The New Republic’s website<\/a> about Sara Boxer’s book Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web<\/a>. I haven’t read the book, but the review contains a funny description of blogging:<\/p>\n

Acoustically, it evokes both a burp and a yawn, seeming to anticipate the toss-away, fervent, carefree prose it would come to define. One doesn’t craft a blog, just as one doesn’t plan to puke. One pukes. One blogs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Them’s fightin’ words! While humorous, I don’t think it’s true: anyone who’s blogged for any length of time—and saying this I just now realized my personal blog<\/a> is almost five years old!—knows it’s actually a lot of work to stick with it and most bloggers agonize a lot over what they post. <\/p>\n

There is some<\/i> truth to what he says though though: if you think too much about a blog post, it will likely never be posted, at least in my experience. But then again, I think the same is true of academic publishing—it’s tempting to workshop an article to death for years until it’s just perfect,<\/i> but you won’t publish very often with that attitude. I wouldn’t compare academic publishing to puking though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a review on The New Republic’s website about Sara Boxer’s book Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web. I haven’t read the book, but the review contains a funny description of blogging: Acoustically, it evokes both a burp and a yawn, seeming to anticipate the toss-away, fervent, carefree prose it would come to define. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/contech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}