Blogs, blog art and the network

Blogs, blog art and the network Anne Helmond Mostly It Happens At Night: Event 2. January 11, 2009. Amsterdam.

Part I: From homepages to blogs

Documentation of the self: Personal homepages My personal homepage in 1996

Documentation of the self: Personal homepages My personal homepage in 2001-2002

Features of the personal homepage • Fairly static and closed self-referential environment • Content stored in one place • Based on the unit of the page • Required HTML knowledge

The introduction of blog software

Reverse-chronological order: latest on top

Automatic indexing by search engines

Default settings show the hidden network

Constructing identity online: The blog • [...] blogs as sites for identity construction and self-invention and have underlined the unruly multiplicity of the social identity online (Paasonen 2002: 22).

First draft of a blueprint of Web 2.0 data ﬂows from one single user

Features of the blog • The blog is a database • The blog is not a closed environment • Based on the unit of the post • Focus on freshness and links • Reverse-chronological order • Does not require HTML knowledge (unless...)

Default settings show the hidden network

The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You © Wired/Infographic: Build

Part II: Blog art

Different types of blog art • Blog as portfolio • Blog as collection of the distributed self • Blogging (network) experiments

Blog as portfolio

Blog as collection of the distributed self

Blogging (network) experiments • Technique (JODI - http://blogroll.jodi.org/) • Form (Seth Keen - Videodefunct) • Network (Jonathan Harris - We Feel Fine)

Technique: Jodi - Blogroll

Form: Videodefunct - Pedestrian

(In)visible network: Jonathan Harris - We Feel Fine

Networked blog art

The blogger is no longer alone in the dark E-mail: anne.helmond@gmail.com Blog: www.annehelmond.nl

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