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In The Rhetoric of Fiction, the late Wayne C. Booth discusses a concept of the "implied author."
The implied author, according to Booth, is a "second self" from the actual historical person who wrote the work in question, not the flesh-and-blood being but a hypothetical entity that includes "not only the extractable meanings [of the text] but also the moral and emotional content of each bit of...
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Shelley sarcastically mentioned the other day that she "sucks at blogging" because of how she does a lot of the things Jakob Nielsen says are the Top Ten Design Mistakes in weblogs:
No Author Biographies
No Author Photo
Nondescript Posting Titles
Links Don't Say Where They Go
Classic Hits are Buried
The Calendar is the Only Navigation
Irregular Publishing Frequency
Mixing Topics
Forgetting That...
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In doing some catch-up on the Web 2.0 conference that happened a couple of weeks ago, I came across Kaliya's round up, where she remarks upon the rather inane statement made by television mogul Barry Diller:
Dumbest thing said on the stage:
Bary Diller dismissed the idea that citizens with blogs and video editing software were major threats to the entertainment industry. "There is not that much...
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The digital divide is vast. Businesses, organizations, and political leaders are rushing to become part of the digital future. In a January 2005 article the BBC tells us
Blog readership has shot up by 58% in 2004
Eight million have created a blog
27% of online Americans have read a blog
5% use RSS aggregators to get news and other information
12% of online Americans have posted comments on blogs...
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People love "Top" lists -- Top 100 Movies of All Time, Top 100 Novels, 100 Most Powerful People, 100 Richest People, Billboard's Top 100 Songs, Top Grossing Blockbusters.... In a mainstream culture, being in the "top" is something of an honor. On the web, there have been recent "Top" lists, too. Two in particular have received a lot of attention: the Technorati 100 and, more recently, the...
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Last night, after closing the 12-hour marathon chatroom session we hosted for BlogHer Conference '05, I send a short email to to woman who had the initial notion to throw such an event, Lisa Stone:
You do realize that you've given birth to a monster, don't you? This baby is going to grow grow grow....
Congratulations to you all.
I clicked "send," let out a big breath, went downstairs ... and...
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