Culture in the age of blogging

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Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 39-48

  Teachout, Terry ^a  

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

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1. Our postings this past April included a review of the French film Comme un image ("Look at Me"); a reminiscence of the painter Neil Welliver, who has just died; brief reflections on the death of Saul Bellow; a series of postings about novels that incorporate the imagined writings of their own fictional characters; a discussion of music in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, with links to recordings made by real-life musicians Proust had known; reviews of live performances by the jazz musicians Gary Burton and Pat Metheny; a miniature essay on "the alleged obsolescence of live theater"; excerpts from my Wall Street Journal reviews of such recently opened Broadway shows as Adam Guettel's The Light in the Piazza, Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman, and the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire; a short excerpt from my unfinished biography of Louis Armstrong; and two sets of links to recent art-related postings by the bloggers.
2. "Thus ethnic enthusiasts, first black and then white, have in effect been telling us for some time now that there is no such thing as a common culture available to all Americans," wrote Norman Podhoretz in "The Idea of a Common Culture" (COMMENTARY, June 1972).
3. "The National Prospect: A Symposium" (COMMENTARY, November 1995).
4. "Republican Nation, Democratic Nation?" (COMMENTARY, January 2001).
5. For a historical account written from a right-wing perspective, see Hugh Hewitt's Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World (Nelson, 225 pp., $19.95). Hewitt blogs at www.hughhewitt.com.
6. One of the most popular is BlogSpot, whose website, www.blogger.com, contains a straightforwardly written explanation of how to start a blog. Apart from the unpaid labor of the blogger, the price of operating such as blog is relatively trivial. Not counting the expense of cable access to the Internet and a small annual fee for registering the domain name, it can run as little as $10.00 a month.
7. Laura and I do not write about politics on About Last Night, both because our views are not identical and because (as I noted on the blog last year) we believe that "it's important that there be at least one politics-free space in the blogosphere where people who love art can read about it - and nothing else."
8. Washington Post, November 16, 2003.
9. In other words, Glenn "InstaPundit" Reynolds, Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com), the neoliberal journalist Mickey Kaus (www.kausfiles.com),
10. Andrew Sullivan, Drudge Report (www.drudgereport.com), and DEBKAfile (www.debka.com), a gossipy, notoriously unreliable Israel-based site whose authors cover the Middle East.
11. ArtsJournal.com blogs do nor contain "comment" boards, which must be monitored closely by an editor in order to delete incoming unsolicited commercial e-mail and libelous or otherwise inappropriate postings.