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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
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...)
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