|
grid blogging
Lots of minor annoyances this week: a thirty-hour power outage, a long phone conversation with tech support, jury duty. On the up-side, I discovered (through City of Sound) the concept of grid blogging: a term coined by Ashley Benigno used to refer to a project wherein a group of bloggers collectively tackles a specific topic on a specific day. It's not a tremendously groundbreaking idea, and the very nature of blog interlinking has probably caused things like it to emerge previously, but what I like about Benigno's act of naming it is that it enables people to think about grid blogging as a formal mode, which could ideally spawn a whole series of interesting future projects. (It could potentially help along an idea I've been trying to develop for the past couple of years: a way to apply the principles of distributed computing to documentary-making, which would potentially result in a product I would call a swarm documentary.)
In any case, Ashley's interesting notes on the first (?) grid blogging project, with the theme of "the brand," can be found here.
|
Thursday, December 04, 2003
2:59 PM
|
