Reflection
This is the last week of Blogging Futures!
The final prompt is looking back on the conversation that has grown on the blogchain...
What have you learned from reading or participating?
Primarily I’ve been heartened to have meet a group of people who are still interested in and curious about exploring new methods of communication on the web!
–November 17, 2019 at 02:41PM
Is there a particular project you want to pursue?
Though I joined late, the course has spurred me to think about the concepts of mixing blogchains with webmentions, and resparked my interest in getting wikis to accept webmentions as well for building and cross-linking information.
–November 17, 2019 at 02:42PM
A learning adventure exploring alternative forms of blogging
This course is a group odyssey around a simple question: how can we expand upon blogging as a medium?
Blogging dead, long live blogging!
Enrollment
All you need is a way to publish a post! A blog works best but you don’t need one to enroll. There are many great anonymous publishing platforms out there like Write.as, text.fyi, and Telegraph.
Structure
The course is structured like a giant ongoing discussion made through blog posts. Each week there will be a prompt post which will include some questions and resources to riff off of. They can be found in the blogchain towards the bottom.
When writing, simply add a link to this post at the beginning/end so others can join in. You could do something like this:
Part of the Blogging Futures course blogchain. Feel free to join!
Once your post is published, you will want to add it to the blogchain so others can read and participate in the developing conversation. You can add your post to the blogchain through this form:
(If the app is ever down, just respond with a link to your post on this thread and I will make sure to add your post to the chain!)
Once submitted, your post will appear below. You are not limited to a number of posts per week, so feel free to write as much as possible. Since the goal is to have a developing conversation across posts, linking to others in the thread and responding to their thoughts is encouraged.
Happy writing!
Blogchain
10/30 to 11/6 – Prompt 1 – Paradigms
CJ Eller, Community of Gardens
Tom Critchlow, New Blogging 2 – Open Blogchains
Jared, Paradigms for blogging social infrastructure
Brendan Schlagel, Proposal for Near-Future Blogging Megastructures
CJ Eller, Towards an ethos
Azlen Elza, Writing as Distilled Thought
11/6 to 11/13 – Prompt 2 – Infrastructure
Anonymous, An Infrastructure of Paper
CJ Eller, Infrastructure for Infrastructures
Jared, Sociotechnical and technosocial infrastructure
11/13 to 11/24 – Prompt 3 – Reflection
Chris Aldrich, On Blogging Futures
CJ Eller, Tinkering
Chris Aldrich, Thoughts and annotations on Brendan Schlagel’s Proposal for Near-Future Blogging Megastructures
Chris Aldrich, Brief response to Prompt 3 – Reflection
Chris Aldrich, Thoughts and annotations on CJ Eller’s Tinkering
CJ Eller, Loosely Joined
Chris Aldrich, Read “An ongoing conversation” by Colin Walker
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