Comments on: Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web

By: admin

admin — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:25:42 +0000

What is this the television of which you speak?

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:01:28 +0000

Sarah Boxer recently reviewed a series of books about blogging and the internet for the New York Review of Books. Just as the NYRB crowd discovered “television” around the late 1960s when PBS started broadcasting, they have just recently discovered the internet and “blogging.” These people are so far out of step with the rest of the world.

By: RP

RP — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:40:07 +0000

Even though I have a story in the Factsheet Five Zine Reader, I have to agree. There are a couple of great stories in there, but there are better avenues if you want to change the world, and most of them involve getting of the couch and being a worthwhile human being (which isn't nearly as fun as reviewing sweet science fiction books).

By: admin

admin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:59:53 +0000

I gave the galley to a co-worker when I was done reading it, so I don’t have it for reference, but I seem to recall her introduction at least acknowledges to some degree that these are the ones that spoke to her, after narrowing down from thousands.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:57:48 +0000

The only good compilation book I saw on the zine scene was THE BOOK OF ZINES by Chip Rowe. And I swear I'm not just saying that because I had stuff in it from my zine. What made it good it because it was fun, because a lot of zines were fun. A lot of blogs are fun to read, and I think if you were to ask bloggers why they blog, most of them would say "because it's fun," not "because I want to ferret out injustices of political persecution" or whatever.

By: RP

RP — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:25:57 +0000

Me three on the “meh” train. The comparison to the zine scene is spot on, dude. Very few people were able to capture the coolness of the zine scene via compilation, and I think that’s equally true of the blogosphere.

By: heather (errantdreams)

heather (errantdreams) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:35:49 +0000

I’m so utterly uninterested in this one, for all the reasons you mention, and because blogs change so quickly that it’ll be irrelevant in months if not minutes.

By: Breeni Books

Breeni Books — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:32:42 +0000

Did the author mention any sort of criteria she used when choosing these “outstanding” blogs? I’m curious why she thought The Smoking Gun should be included in a blog book, as well.