Blogs as documentary medium
Hometown Badhdad
What’s the story being told in this documentary?
“Troops”
How is the story told through the episodes themselves? (Music, the film style, the themes of each episode, the editing, etc.)
Images/video and accuracy. Are these episodes more “accurate” tellings than a text written by a single witness?
How does the serial nature of this documentary affect how you “read” it?
What about the larger structure of a blog? What role does that form play?
Blogs allow for
- serial storytelling
- tags/categories for reader’s organization
- framing each narrative
- “about” pages
- reader interaction/comments
- links among stories and external pages
- images/video/sounds
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Web 2.0
Writing in digital media (online) is more than a matter of writing with electricity. Web 2.0 is the name given to a new possibility of writing. What’s different about writing online?
- Text is no longer linear
- Form and content are separable. You no longer need to know how to create the form in order to “dump” your content into its shape.
- We are generating so much data, and we (as readers/users) can organize it in dynamic ways. See how the episodes link together, even apart from a linear reading.
- Web 2.0 links people (see tags, for example) and ideas together. This changes how we read.
- Example: “Kiss and Tell” is tagged by “dating.”
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Setting up a blog. Start with Wordpress.
- Set up a blog.
- Think about the potential of the form. . .
