tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post7522658670043327057..comments2024-03-14T09:01:47.587-08:00Comments on What Do I Know?: What Changes as We Go From Diaries to Blogs?Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-50863438682849328492011-01-28T01:01:47.963-09:002011-01-28T01:01:47.963-09:00Thomás, getting to meet you is one of the delights...Thomás, getting to meet you is one of the delights of blogging. Which does make Kathy's public/private point too.<br /><br />Kathy,<br /><br />Over the years I've learned to be less anal about typos. I've accepted that super-strictness on spelling and the finer points of grammar might be good for getting something polished for publication, but it can cause many students to hate writing and give it up. It's like obsessing on the tennis balls going into the net rather than focusing on the how the others got over the net. <br /><br />When you fall off a trapeze without a net, you can die. But when you post a typo, at most your ego gets bruised. And I'm willing to risk a bruised ego in exchange for talking to people. Mostly they accept a typo here and there in a blog anyway.<br /><br /><br />Typos that affect the meaning or make it hard for the reader to understand are problematic - but you get feedback on a blog from your readers that you normally wouldn't get for published pieces. And if you're libelously wrong, you can delete it, which you can't do in print. Besides people can write in perfect English and still be hard to understand. But an editor should help there. Should.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-82617646574000089972011-01-27T16:37:23.340-09:002011-01-27T16:37:23.340-09:00The biggest difference is that journals are privat...The biggest difference is that journals are private, while blogs or whatever are published and thus public. Most sentient beings say different things in public than they say to themselves. <br /><br />What I think we've lost in moving from private to public writing is the old-fashioned idea that before you publish your work, somebody else reads it, to correct your typos, to challenge your strange pronunciamentos and to suggest that maybe you might want to rethink or rephrase something that's heading off the edge. Writing on the internet, unedited, is doing trapeze tricks without a safety net. As somebody who made a living at public writing for three decades, and who was extremely grateful for the good editors who provided my safety net, I can tell you that it's damn scary working this way.kathy in KYnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-89722860231930211952011-01-27T08:51:03.820-09:002011-01-27T08:51:03.820-09:00When I started my blog I thought of the possibilit...When I started my blog I thought of the possibility of contacting other people in the wide world, but never the opportunity of enjoy a unforgettable brunch in the other side of the real world with an unknown blogger. A diary will never get something like that. Just for this meeting my blog worths (for me)...Tomás Serranohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11409734967260033756noreply@blogger.com