Comments on: Sharing

By: melgregg

melgregg — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:28:37 +0000

Thanks so much Melissa, it’s wonderful to read someone else’s interpretation of my work… sounds like you really engaged with it, which is wonderful! Glad it is painting cultural studies in a good light for you.

And well done! De-lurking must be applauded! Blogging is all about participation… I am looking forward to learning a lot from your blogging too!

By: c

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:09:15 +0000

Thanks for sharing Rowan

[just stirrin']

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:37:53 +0000

Hey, definitely interested in reading the paper on banal blogging from the ivory tower. Encountered plenty of that lately. Have also been dipping into yr book, by the way, and wrote something about it in the latest entry on my own blog: .

By: melgregg

melgregg — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:23:21 +0000

Thanks both: being away from the computer for a few days should give me some time to reflect on these matters! Rowan, as ever, thanks for your ideas on further readings/contexts. I’ll be sure to follow them up. A lot of these thoughts will probably make their way into the book I’m writing with Catherine Driscoll, so these references are really useful for that project too. But maybe *you* should write something about it– for your own book?! Heh.

By: M-H

M-H — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:08:01 +0000

Ever the lightweight, I hope you enjoy FNQ. I went for the first time last year and absolutely loved it. Palm Beach: quiet and peaceful with great food. The Reef: bloody amazing – I couldn’t even swim two years ago so snorkelling the reef was a real buzz for me. Daintree trip: hilarious – all the guides should be as unintentionally funny as Xavier was. But his mixing up of various Kings of England wasn’t as funny as the fury it provoked in some of the other passengers.

By: rowan

rowan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:48:37 +0000

Mel, I find the last part of this post especially interesting. Iâ€™m really pleased youâ€™ve provided this sketch of some of the different structural, discursive, temporal, and other differences between these respective modes of CMC, as well as how your own personal preferences/inclinations influence your (changing) uses of them. As a long time reader of your blog, I have found the inclusion and use of Twitter on your blog site quite fascinating. For instance, in reading your twittering alongside your blogging, what strikes me is not how boring your days may or may not be as represented in the former as opposed to the latter, where your posts are of a different ilk altogether and are generally very carefully constructed and much lengthier reflective pieces. Rather, what strikes me most is the very different textual and discursive strategies and uses that each demand or encourage â€“ or, perhaps, to put this slightly differently, how each leads to different aspects of your workaday life (and associated â€˜affective statesâ€™) being revealed and documented. It is these differences that I find fascinating and have led me to think more about Twitter in particular. What I personally find interesting about applications such as Twitter is that they seem to be getting closer and closer to the sorts of practices of documentation that were explored in the 1970s by the likes of Georges Perec and other contributors to the journal _Cause commune_. That is, mechanisms for unlocking, for prying open to view, the seemingly inscrutable inner workings of the infra-ordinary. In short, they tend towards (replicate? are modelled on?) other, prior practices of list-making and description, many of which are documented with such extraordinary insight and care in the early chapters of Robert Belknapâ€™s _The list: The uses and pleasures of cataloguing_. Iâ€™d be interested to hear more of your thoughts, Mel, on this stuff, particularly your experiences of twittering versus blogging.