Re: Article about blogs and garden writing

**n* k* <n*@att.net>**

Amen. 

--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Carlo A. Balistrieri <carlobal@netzero.com> wrote:

From: Carlo A. Balistrieri <carlobal@netzero.com>
Subject: Re: [GWL] Article about blogs and garden writing
To: n.koziol@att.net, "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 7:08 AM

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
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----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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