This work by Ernesto G. Sonido Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Philippines License.
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There is a flood of talk about blogging and media in the past few weeks. There are amusing discussions; there are discussions that would make one want to slit one’s wrist … then again simply ignore it and then there are discussions that are interesting. And this is because it illuminates key points and makes you think. Thus sparking other discussions. It is not just a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Blogging is a publishing platform. It is also a syndication – through it one can distribute what one publishes. So with most blogging platform it enables one to be the:
Writer/Creator
Editor
Publisher
Distributor/Syndication
And one can publish anything from a diary to commentary to an instruction manual. So in terms of writing one can be any of the following:
Reporter
Essayist
Fiction Writer
Diarist
All can be found in other forms of published literature. As blogging is a form of publishing this is not surprising.
One of the most intimate form of writing and writer. One of the more famous diarist is Samuel Pepys. Pepys kept a detailed private diary from 1660 to 1669. It was published years after during the 19th century and was one of main sources of information about the Restoration of the Monarchy.
There is a book an anthology that goes by the title The Assassin’s Cloak. Compiled and edited by Irene and Alan Taylor. A good source of diaries written in English and predictably a great number of English writers and personalities. One was the Scot William Soutar: A poet, one of the leading poets of the Scottish Poetry Rennaissance: He was bedridden from 1930 till his death in 1943. His diary titled Diary of Dying Man was published after his death.
A diary is an assassin’s cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen -William Soutar
Why mention this? Although same in form there is a difference between a diary writing on-line and off-line. And it is not exactly ying and yang: black and white. There are as in actual life difference in degrees.
usually, the diarist first and often times only audience is himself. The only time a other people get to read a diary is when it is published.
Now on-line there are two types of diarists one open to the public and one not. Of course there are degrees to this: One might opt to show it to a select set of people or it could be open to the public or not.
When it is published for everyone then does it fall into the same set of responsibilities, rights and liabilities of anything that is published?
It seems yes.
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This work by Ernesto G. Sonido Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Philippines License.