Early blogs remixed Reader’s Digest publishing with conversational cross-linking

Evidence

What was this new form of confessional? It was, the author Rebecca Mead explained, “a new kind of Web site that is known as a ‘weblog,’ or ‘blog.’ ” As she explained, “Having a blog is rather like publishing your own, on-line version of Reader’s Digest, with daily updates”; yet with a conversational element: “other people who have blogs—they are known as bloggers—read your blog, and if they like it they blog your blog on their own blog.” — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 903

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the early weblog format and shows its kinship with digest-style attention collecting.
• XREF: connects to: Lifestyle blogging monetized into commercial blogging through sponsorships — Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame…, 221; Anonymous heterodox blogs outpaced named economists in post-crisis insight — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 2033; Scholarly citation conventions can be replaced by conversational allusion — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 30

Broader Connections

• Scholarly citation conventions can be replaced by conversational allusion #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 30