Presentation by David Weinberger. I will do only highlights.
Three stages of weblogs history: hard-coded expressions -> webpublishing with tools -> links and conversations.
Weblog without links looks like marketing.
“There is something important about writing badly”. Draft writing is liberating: you can be who you are and be accepted like that. Your readers do not expect edited version.
Constructing a self with weblogs. Your web-self is only public.
Our relation to web-self is more like a relation between an author and a character.
Subjectivity is important: it captures the richness of reality. Weblogs allow multi-subjectivity.
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