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Doubting Thomas writes an essay that, despite causing some slight dissention early on independently displays the "linker/thinker" dichotomy that has entered the blogosphere. Thus, he writes:
I do not engage in the "hyperlink with attendant commentary on the link" type of blogging that is so prevalent. and is echoing Steven den Beste, although Steven is perhaps less disdainful of linkers (finding a linker that you like is like finding a critic that you like; the more than you agree with him, the less likely he is to point to anything that you haven’t seen for yourself).Likewise, when he says:
For instance, I typically write an original essay intermittently, and that's it he is allying with the thinker category (den Beste originally called the two categories "editors" and "writers", but later accepted the comments of others that they should be called "linkers" and "thinkers", apparently for the sake of euphony). Thomas also mentions disparagingly the "’Banality of Being Jenn’ style of blogging", something that, keeping with the linker/thinker categorization I called a "sinker" (as in "i had this really k00l donut 4 breakfast 2day"). Increasingly, though, I find "Jennblog" to be more appropriate, despite the disservice that it probably does to some Jenns. (Riffing on this: a parody of a Jennblog by Jeff Goldstein, an actual Jennblog written by someone named Jenn, the webcomic Absurd Notions by Kevin Pease, who is under the impression that nearly every American woman born in the 1970s was named "Jennifer", and some evidence that supports him.)John "Akatsukami" Braue Wednesday, April 10, 2002 |
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