{"id":335,"date":"2006-07-07T10:35:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T14:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/07\/weekend-without-echoes\/"},"modified":"2006-07-07T15:12:36","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T19:12:36","slug":"weekend-without-echoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/07\/weekend-without-echoes\/","title":{"rendered":"“Weekend Without Echoes”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to comments made by journalists at the Sorenson VA Bloggers Summit<\/a>, panelist F.T. Rea has posted an intriguing challenge. He calls it a “Weekend Without Echoes<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

“…I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to propose that bloggers who want to participate in a little experiment, use the weekend of July 21-23 to show the rest of the blogosphere that it can be done. It would be a weekend vacation from copying, and piling on, and talking points … a weekend without calling everyone with whom one disagrees a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153liberal,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conservative,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as if those are dirty words.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

F.T. is referring to the “echo chamber” effect of political blogs, a tendency among some higher-profile boggers to link and respond to stories or posts that they have seen on other blogs.<\/p>\n

Like my new friend Conaway Haskins<\/a>, I too consider myself “a writer who blogs<\/em>“. When I first began Semi Truths<\/em> in 2001, I felt very much like a lone voice in the wilderness and much of what I have historically posted is<\/em> original material. But the blogosphere has changed, and now many of the sites that I read regularly are fellow VA bloggers. Unfortunately, it is this very tendency to read and comment upon each other’s blogs that drove me away from this practice for a few years, but it is also this newfound sense of community that has brought me back in.<\/p>\n

So, I’m in. My real challenge as a blogger has been to find any<\/em> time to write, but I should be able to build up some “original” material to post that weekend of July 21 – 23. For just one example, see my essay from two days ago<\/a> on my family’s trip to D.C. for Independence Day.<\/p>\n

Thank you, F.T., for your efforts to expand our definition of blogging.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: Vivian Paige<\/a> is collecting links to the “coalition of the willing”, those bloggers who will participate in the WWE. I am scheduled to be on Coy Barefoot<\/a>‘s “Charlottesville \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Right Now!”<\/em> radio show this afternoon at 4:30 and will talk about the WWE then<\/strike>. The radio interview has been rescheduled for July 20, which is even closer to the WWE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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