Blogging is Preservation
Unless I’m mistaken, John is the only faculty member at the lab who consistently keeps a blog. Why aren’t other faculty members self-publishing their thoughts and work on blogs? In the emerging media landscape, blogging is no longer simply about promotion of one’s identity, ideas and reputation. It is about preservation. If the lab and its faculty continue to ignore this medium they will simply and quietly drop off the collective radar. And if they can pick it up like John, Henry Jenkins, and others, they will find an audience.
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February 21st, 2007 at 10:22 pm
[...] I’m trying to get better at this blogging thing. This isn’t as easy as it sounds. I need to stop thinking “just post something, you can write real things later on”. On his blog Brent Fitzgerald recently asked why it seemed like John Maeda was the only Media Lab faculty consistently blogging (actually multi-blogging). I think this somehow ties into my difficulty with blogging. Sure there is all the usual putting yourself out there, writing is hard, thinking is harder, etc. but the real truth is that I feel a little guilty about writing a good blog article. I say guilty because I could have written something good for something else instead. A journal, a conference, even a magazine. Instead I wrote it for a blog. This is a bad mentality because it: [...]