Thoughts on essay journalling
Aug. 12th, 2004 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterWell, I've gone ahead and updated my essay journal again (also available as an LJ-friend RSS feed at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
allivegottosay by the way, though my ego would tend to prefer you visiting the site itself also for hitcount :) with a post about the Olympic branding thing that was on BoingBoing earlier today. I'd drop links in here, but hey, the links are already in my journal essay, why be redundant?
I like writing little essays where I can do more than just link to a single news URL and say "look at this." I mean, that's all most of the people out there do, and if you've seen one of those stories you've seen them all. I prefer to tie a few other links in and say, "Hey, look at this other thing and see how it relates to this first thing, and see how they look when viewed in light of each other." I think it's more useful, and it feels closer to "legitimate" journalism somehow.
allivegottosay by the way, though my ego would tend to prefer you visiting the site itself also for hitcount :) with a post about the Olympic branding thing that was on BoingBoing earlier today. I'd drop links in here, but hey, the links are already in my journal essay, why be redundant?I like writing little essays where I can do more than just link to a single news URL and say "look at this." I mean, that's all most of the people out there do, and if you've seen one of those stories you've seen them all. I prefer to tie a few other links in and say, "Hey, look at this other thing and see how it relates to this first thing, and see how they look when viewed in light of each other." I think it's more useful, and it feels closer to "legitimate" journalism somehow.
