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December, 2012

What Blog?

The concept of 'weblogs' being erased from collective memory.
An interesting statement by Bruce Sterling on memory and blogs and media more generally:
As people get more comfortable with the metamedium of software which underlies all digital media, they get less and less concerned with whatever “new media” may call themselves. When weblogs are finally gone, people will say that there was never really such a thing as a “weblog” in the first place.
I think he's right and we're already seeing it. I wonder if there's a media law somewhere in there where we create new media and then when we make them extinct we actually erase them from our collective memories.
December 6, 2012
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