Blogging

I have no idea….

Nunberg first tries to define what exactly blogging is. It was shown that blogs include news summaries, opinion columns, or collection of press releases, however most were written more in the form of a journal by college students, office workers, and stay-at-home moms. He then goes to say that understanding blogging can be difficult, that the language is confusing at times. He says the language can be informal, impertinent, and digressive. He compares it to people in a high school cafeteria chatting about different things including “snarky” remarks about people at other tables. I think he is trying to say that blogs are more about opinion and expression rather than giving out information as in magazines and newspaper. He says that blogspeak is “an adaptation of the table talk of the urban middle class, it is not a language everybody in the cafeteria is equally adept at speaking.” He says that at least the newspaper is more of a neutral voice, so I suppose he is comparing this to blogging. I honestly have no idea what he is talking about. I think he is trying to argue that blogs should not become or be taken as serious as real newspaper articles and magazine and that it shouldn’t be considered genuine literary form. Meaning, that its mainly just people chatting and bitching about things with no real purpose or reason like journalistic writing in magazines and newspapers. ????