May 6, 2011
The structure of a Kottke post is totally elemental
Tim Carmody on kottke.org and the spirit of blogging:
The vast majority of professional, corporate-owned blogs have rejected it, too, in favor of SEO-approved heds, totally predictable story lines, strict divorce between news and commentary, and pretending like their competitors — even their colleagues at the same organization — don’t exist.
Instead, we’ve got officially-approved categorial mantras like curation and community engagement — as if what mattered in great blogs was their arty taste, skill at embedding viral videos, or pushing out tweets to their followers. Rather than watching an agile mind at work, one attached to a living, breathing person, and feeling like you were tapped into a discussion that was bringing together the most vital parts of the web.
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This is why I give David such a hard time for ever reading the HuffPo.
Curation is pretty much my #1 most-hated bit of cant these days.
It’s funny, because curation is one of the things I think Jason does such a good job with. But it is the spirit of the context and intelligence of the blogger that gives that any sort of meaning.
Oh, I agree! Yes! It’s just how the word seems to have been flattened out and become a Thing.