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November 22, 2003
I should have mentioned this before.
Junk for code has been invited to participate in an experiment called grid blogging organized by Ashley over at notes from somewhere strange. The theme will be 'branding', or more specifically 'the brand'. Ashely writes:
"Temporary in nature, the first grid blog is set to happen on December 1. The topic is the "brand". Interpret it as you like, from the comfort of your own blog. As critique, as recollection, as original content, as link-fest or visual interpretation. Whatever. Join in and help us discover where we can lead this dance."
Grid blogging shifts the emphasis away from the blogger as a proto journalist---the model of many get-it-down-fast writing favoured by Australian bloggers--- and more towards the online magazine devoted to a special issue. It is a shift away from the lecture mode heres the news, my considered opinions and you buy it or you dont and move towards the interactivity of a conversation.
It is a online conversation structured around an issue with many diverse voices coming from different perspectives in a visual culture.
Ashley says that the contributors to the conversation about the concept of the brand will be:
Abe from Abstract Dynamics
Anne from purse lip square jaw
Christine from Glowlab
Fabio from freegoriferio
Jonathon of things magazine
Nicolas Nova
Adam of V-2
Tomo of Electricspace
Dr. Menlo
Ifyou have time check these very sophisticated visual blogs out as they constitute a very diverse visual field.
The ethos of the flowing grid-blogging conversation will be on becoming, and so challenge the stereotypical repetitions in our visual culture.
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