Re: Article about blogs and garden writing

**l*@juno.com**

Thanks, Carlo for saying a lot of what I was thinking -- and I was
thinking about your blog as a fine example of what blogging can be.
Gardening Gone Wild is another great one. Nan is very inventive, as well
as generous in sharing her plant expertise. And, while Saxon Holt's
snippets are short, I find them very useful in sharpening my photography
skills. I enjoy "visiting" other GWA members I've met, by reading their
blogs.

Then, of course, there is my own blog, read by civil engineers, land use
planners, attorneys, and environmental scientists, as well as ordinary
folks who garden in our area. I know who my readers are, because they
tell me.

While I certainly understand the difference between academic and popular
writing, I have never quite gotten the distinction between garden writing
and garden journalism. Seems to me to be in the eye of the beholder.

Regards,
Lois
Visit: http://loisdevries.blogspot.com

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:08:56 -0400 "Carlo A. Balistrieri"
<carlobal@netzero.com> writes:
> 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. 
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