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William Gibson on Blogging

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the stuff-to-read dept.

The Ape With No Name writes "With Pattern Recognition now out, Gibson talks to the Guardian about blogging, which ones he's looking at and why he may have to quit blogging himself. He's quoted as saying '...if I'm ever going to write another book, I'm going to have to quit doing my blog as I have a hunch it interferes with the ecology of being a novelist.'"

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  1. The main problem with Blogs by Boss,+Pointy+Haired · · Score: 5, Insightful

    is too much Amateur Philosophy.

  2. Re: TAKE OFF EVERY BLOG by croddy · · Score: 5, Insightful
    the main problem with blogs is that, as far as google is concerned, they masquerade as useful information when all they contain is idle chatter. and through some fluke of their evil software, they seem to get indexed really fast, so when a major political or social even happens, google is noised to the brim with blogs and you have to start at result number 40 or so before you get past the blogs.

    I can get a google search with porn turned off; why can't I get blogs turned off too?

  3. blogging gets in the way of writing? by Tony+Laszlo,+Tokyo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does blogging aversely affect the professional writer's writing? The Guardian interview touches on an important question, but only briefly - this is one that should probably be tackled by a team of researchers. When I started up a simple blog-on-a-Wiki last December, I was a bit plagued by a similar question:
    Why would writers write in their free time?
    For me, as long as I can get away with taking one or even two week breaks from the blog, it is not a problem. "Write when you need to, blog when you can," is about where I find myself at the moment.

  4. I can understand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am supposed to writing a ten page history paper right now, but no, what am I doing, posting on Slashdot instead. Blogging, posting to forums, watching Bill O'Reilly just to get angry, they are all more interesting distractions than writing a book or a paper because they are easier and don't require as much energy. If you get all your emotion out on the little stuff, you have nothing left for the book.

  5. Re:Call me cynical by y0bhgu0d · · Score: 5, Insightful

    sounds like flamebait to me. i'll bite.

    how exactly is blogging dying? from everything i have observed, weblogs (on whatever issue; politics, technology, religion, personal) have been getting more popular. in fact, when america attacked iraq back in march, several "warblogs" carried unbiased information about what was going on. these places got millions of hits per day when conflict broke, and they might have been getting a couple hundred a day before that.

    blogging is far from dying ;)

    also, gibson usually gets rather deep with his entries, more of an insight into his mind than a "OMFG taht chick r0xx0rz :O :O :O"

    *shrug*