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Drift Net > digital culture Now Available: Blogs Offline
Want to read the best of blogs? Now you can, except there’s a catch. It’s available not online, but offline—in a to-be-released blog book.Want to read the best of blogs? Now you can, except there’s a catch. This compilation of blogs will be available not online, but offline—in an about to-be-released blog book. Edited by Alan Graham and Bonnie Burton, Never Threaten to Eat Your Co-Workers collects the best blogs from across the globe. Sounds like a good idea, but will the blogs-even the best blogs-work without the ability to link? Umm, I’d have to vote "No." The best blogs, as bloggers and blogophiles know, are brief and current. Blogs generally exclude extensive background information; instead, they simply provide a link, one of the most practical aspects of the genre. If you want background, click the link to another site, delve deeper into another document and read on. Now, if I read a blog in a book, it would probably be outdated by the time I read it and whatever topic, the blogger has written about, would most definitely be a vague memory, at least for me. I would need an information refresher, and I’m fairly certain, I wouldn’t be motivated enough to go link online while reading the book. Of course integrity of the blogs would be better preserved online, but then that leads to a multitude of questions on how to sell and market an online book, which is another topic. In the publisher's eye, the only effective way to sell and make money off of blogs is to publish them in a "dead tree" medium. Maybe someone should pay a little more attention to the use of banner ads. But for now, I guess this is what we get. |
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