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Hey this post made me think of what happens to the diaries I do write
occasionally. Also, about what happens to the blogs on Blogit? Can they be at least liberated, if not formally published in print or e-book after the person is dead, if the person makes a will authorising someone to that effect?
posted by
Straightforward
on January 26, 2011 at 7:59 AM
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I think that blogs are the modern diary, but sadly their lifespan is shorter as most hosts will only store them for a short period of inactivity
posted by
lionreign
on January 25, 2011 at 8:49 AM
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RR
Ï A blog’s capacity accommodates a diary and does for some in the journal section love. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on January 25, 2011 at 7:37 AM
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I suppose a blog is a kind of diary, but shared with friends! Thanks for your visit!
posted by
Nita09
on January 25, 2011 at 3:51 AM
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Well, I think there were possibly a few more interesting comments
in those diaries as well ha ha. There is a blogit blog where someone just uses it to write shopping lists... From start to finish. Just shopping lists! It is up to them what they pay money to Blogit for to use their blog space for but they didn't seem to get any comments :) I think maybe your mum would have been a keen journal blogger. Facebook sees people using it as if it's a journal and I think Blogit is better. Parents can keep tabs on their children through facebook ha ha. But Blogit journal they would by consent be reading their diary ha ha. The twist being that they paid to do it. It takes looking outside the box sometimes to see how strange somethings are and sometimes how that might not be a bad idea... at times. Blogging is popular I think because it is news in journal/Diary style or writing that doesn't take up space on a shelf and where you can interact with people without them even knowing who you are. Young people can feel free to express themselves and be read the same as everyone else and with Blogit they can make some cash as well :) As to what will hapen to it all, many people erase their blogs when they leave or if they stay and become readers and nolonger writers. They remove their blogs sometimes just because people don't look back at them anymore and they want to start a fresh lot. If bloggit ever closed I hope it never does, but if it did then people would just remove their blog material and that would be that I think :)
posted by
Cheerygirl
on January 25, 2011 at 2:02 AM
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I think too that you mother would have been a blogger. The statistics reveal that bloggers make quite a bit of money just blogging so I suppose these days it is more of a commercial interest. I think the billions of blogging material will be discarded somehow.
posted by
shobana
on January 24, 2011 at 7:21 PM
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I imagine your mother would have been a blogger...I'd like to think that are blogs will be up for eternity. I imagine that with whatever blogs survive time they will be analyzed by people in different disciplines.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on January 24, 2011 at 4:27 PM
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Rocking Rector
Well I have deleted nearly everything I have written except for my one book that was properly published
Love and Sobriety, now I only keep my meditations and I even did away with all my diary writing.Makes me healthy minded to realize all I had to leave behind was a message on how to quit drinking alcohol. Well of course I am happy to leave 5 (kids) people behind.
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 24, 2011 at 3:15 PM
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what history of women would we have if they had not kept diaries
I am glad that she did just that and as for blogs.....well I won't be around to see and at the moment LOL MY posts are about as exciting as it's cold and I am staying inside again!!!!! I feel dried out of stories.
posted by
Kabu
on January 24, 2011 at 2:23 PM
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I think it is marvelous that your mother was so diligent about keeping a diary! I have never had enough discipline! As long as posts stay on the web they undoubtedly will be read! sam
posted by
sam444
on January 24, 2011 at 10:57 AM
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I've wondered about that too, Rocking..All these words swirling
in cyberspace; well, many of them have built bridges and created havens and/or perhaps heavens for humanity to cross to enlightenment and to shelter in when life becomes a starstorm of fearsome fire and dust..So I must believe there is a reason for them, even if they are erased someday, they will live on. The hope anyway..
How wonderful your Mother wrote so consistently. May be mundane, but the diaries are her thoughts and spirit communicating. Nice to read you again.
posted by
Raye09
on January 24, 2011 at 10:55 AM
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I would very much have liked to have met your mother Rocking...
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on January 24, 2011 at 9:56 AM
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I say congratulations to anyone who can keep a running diary....
I've done it on and off (right now off), but had the same problem, coming up with daily entries that weren't boring.
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posted by
Rumor
on January 24, 2011 at 9:49 AM
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Interesting questions, Rocking, and some that I have asked myself. I don't blog every day (though I do keep a short written daily diary), so when I do it's usually about something striking or extremely funny or poignant. Part of me thinks I should print everything out (I haven't yet), so that future generations can find my less than brilliant thoughts, but for now I just feel that these posts help me write better and are cathartic in many ways. By the way - the piece on Dog IQ was not mine; I copy and pasted from one of my favorite NY Times writers, James Gorman. HE is a brilliant writer! Mal
posted by
gapcohen
on January 24, 2011 at 9:45 AM
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they sound more like FB comments, but she may have been a blogger too
posted by
Lanetay
on January 24, 2011 at 9:35 AM
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