Blogue: "écriture postmoderne"

Quand ça passe, on en profite: un auteur avoue publiquement être un blogueur. Et dans le magazine "The Atlantic" en plus. On croit rêver: il cite Pascal, Montaigne, Platon et Aristote. Oui, oui on parle de blogue! Et ça commence ainsi: "make no mistake: it heralds a golden era for journalism." Extraits.

Why I Blog, de Andrew Sullivan
The Atlantic, novembre 2008

"it has exposed a hunger and need for traditional writing that, in the age of television’s dominance, had seemed on the wane"

"The quintessential blogger avant la lettre was Montaigne"

"The key to understanding a blog is to realize that it’s a broadcast, not a publication. If it stops moving, it dies. If it stops paddling, it sinks."

"[The blogger] is—more than any writer of the past—a node among other nodes, connected but unfinished without the links and the comments and the track-backs that make the blogosphere, at its best, a conversation, rather than a production."

"When readers of my blog bump into me in person, they invariably address me as Andrew. Print readers don’t do that. It’s Mr. Sullivan to them."

"The traditional method involves a journalist searching for key sources, nurturing them, and sequestering them from his rivals. A blogger splashes gamely into a subject and dares the sources to come to him."

"The more you link, the more others will link to you, and the more traffic and readers you will get. The zero-sum game of old media—in which Time benefits from Newsweek’s decline and vice versa—becomes win-win. "

"There are times, in fact, when a blogger feels less like a writer than an online disc jockey, mixing samples of tunes and generating new melodies through mashups while also making his own music."

Et on conclut avec :

"If all this sounds postmodern, that’s because it is. And blogging suffers from the same flaws as postmodernism: a failure to provide stable truth or a permanent perspective."
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