Web based essay on Mortensens extract by Karan Grewal (s3089131)

In this essay I will be exploring how linking works in blogs. I will also go into the development of communities. I will show how small ideas slowly combine to express one big idea. Lastly I will show the concept of work progression with links and ideas. I will also include some examples from various sites that show how fragments of videos create context for one massive idea.

The Extract:

“Weblogs are densely interlinked . This anchors blogs in the public arena, as part of a communal discourse. Posts to a blog can be very short and unpretentious. The threshold for publishing a single post is very low. This allows single, small, insignificant ideas to be expressed and formulated. Sometimes these thoughts are left as they are. A paragraph is enough and there is no more needed. Other times, the ideas grow. Someone links their site to the first post, comments on it, and a conversation grows forth. The initial post, or follow-ups, are linked to a web site or a newspaper article or something else. Links are like roots, tendrils, reaching out between fragments, creating a context for bits and pieces that at first glance may seem to be unconnected fragments.”

Mortensen, Torill, and Jill Walker. “Blogging Thoughts: Personal Publication as an Online Research Tool.” Researching Ict’s in Context. Ed. Andrew Morrison. Oslo: University of Oslo, 2002. 249-79. p.259.

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