FSP 1.1: Why blog ?

April 08, 2003

Why blog ?

Blogging provides a public post-it note about something. An observation,
a quotation, a picture, an idea.

Posting a link is a vote in support of the linked-to resource, whose rank
will be increased by google, blogdex, etc.

Many a blog entry serves also as a public vote to support a particular
noted improvement. For instance, if I write, Office atria should sport
three-way mirrors --watching them, watching you, watching them.,
random people googling for atria will encounter my idea.

Most of the posts here are on the topics of

economics, especially pricing mechanisms;
information architecture, user centereed design, and usability; or
urbanity and transportation and physical architecture.

Q.Is it unusual to mix economics and urbanism ?
A.No, see for example Emanuel Tobier of the Wagner Graduate School of
Public Service of New York University or Jane Jacobs (neither of whom has
a blog (heh)).

Blogging furthers the revolution of do-it-yourself media criticism. Another
advantage to the Internet is that stories with a local bent in news magazines like
Newsweek and Time can be fact-checked against the version offered by
bloggers and by local newspapers, which are usually available online, and which
also usually have a more nuanced approach to the story.

And like Matt Welch said, the New Journalism of the 1960s
was built on a foundation of exposing boring conventional newspapers
for sucking up to power, lulling readers to sleep, and missing the truth.

I am also testing the notion that I can write great works by writing only
fifteen minutes per day. I have a few ideas for books
on information architecture, urban design and transit,
and applied economics, and want to see if

* I have sufficient illustrated examples and anecdotes to
support such a longer work; and

* If my inclination to write will be improved and my direction
in writing will be better focussed by starting with a review
and reflecting on the accumulated base of blog entries.

Posted by dc at April 8, 2003 07:56 PM | TrackBack

Comments

Posted by: viagra on July 22, 2004 02:52 AM

Posted by: viagra on July 22, 2004 02:54 AM

Posted by: viagra on July 22, 2004 02:55 AM