Re: Article about blogs and garden writing

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Wow. That's a pretty specious argument....

Bigger is not necessarily better, whether it's a meal, a film, or an  
article. I suppose haiku isn't poetry, minimalism isn't art, simple  
elegance isn't style. I can just as easily (or with the same  
difficulty) write a thousand word blog entry, as I can an article for  
Garden Design of the same length.

"[T]he blog medium IS the message"? A sound bite? Apparently, Nina,  
you haven't read enough blogs. There are bad ones, to be sure--just as  
there are bad gardening magazines and books. But never before have so  
many voices been heard. The medium IS a platform for these unique  
voices. The message is that you can pick and choose. The reader  
provides the editorial oversight. If you don't like it, don't read it.  
If you don't want the social aspect of the network, start knitting. If  
time is getting sucked out of your day, it's you doing the slurping.

On Mar 30, 2009, at 11:49 PM, nina koziol wrote:

> Garden blogging is to journalism what fast food is to fine dining.   
> Reading those blog entries--whether witty in their snarky humor or  
> annoying with inane demands--is akin to watching commercials. That  
> is the sad state of the collective attention span today.   Blogs  
> will never replace a feature story that delves deeply into a  
> gardener's persona, because the blog medium IS the message.  It's a  
> sound bite.  It doesn't lend itself to story depth in any way.  Nor  
> do the posts have the type of editorial oversight demanded of most  
> journalists.  It's a social network that occasionally educates, but  
> more often sucks the time out of one's day.  And..."perky  
> writing..." should make you cringe.  Anyone with a video camera can  
> post a short video to YouTube; few make the full-length feature  
> film.  As for Margaret Roach who proclaimed that she will never join  
> a garden writers' group, good for her.  In place of her dues, maybe  
> she'll donate a few
> bucks from her Martha-endowed, hefty 401k to Plant a Row for the  
> Hungry.
>
> Nina A. Koziol
>
>
> --- On Mon, 3/30/09, Gene Bush <genebush@netsurfusa.net> wrote:
>
> From: Gene Bush <genebush@netsurfusa.net>
> Subject: Re: [GWL] Article about blogs and garden writing
> To: "'Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum'" <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org 
> >
> Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 2:52 PM
>
> Hummm,
> 	Everyone must be out in the garden.
> I would have thought there would be several comments on the article  
> by now.
> The issue discussed certainly touches upon many of us as garden  
> writers. Did
> toes get stepped upon?
> 	For myself, I feel that the key word in the article was "opinion".
> You know about opinions? They are like elbows... everyone has a  
> couple of
> them. May be functional on the one, but not necessarily on the other.
> 	
> Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, LLC
> www.munchkinnursery.com
> Gardener,Writer, Photographer
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gardenwriters-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:gardenwriters-
> Subject: [GWL] Article about blogs and garden writing
>
> Feature writer (and passionate gardener) Mackensie Carpenter covers  
> garden
> blogs and garden writing in general in today's Pittsburgh Post- 
> Gazette:
> http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09089/959222-47.stm
> Even the GWA is mentioned, - by Margaret Roach, who says she'll  
> never join.
> Susan
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