Jill Walker provides another wonderful, and eloquently described metaphor for blogging:
“Blogging is about doing just a little each day, and building something over time” I say in the interview, “rather like crocheting or knitting. You can follow a pattern or make up your own, you can talk about what you’re making with your friends, and the level of ambition can be as high or low as you like. Sometimes your creations won’t please you and you’ll unravel them or just hide them in a cupboard. Other times you’ll be surprised at how beautiful it turned out. When you knit a jumper for your lover you knit a single strand of your hair into each section, creating for a specific reader, binding him to you, though he may never realise the hairs are there.”
jill/txt > blogging is like knitting
Can we extend the analogy to include trackbacks, comments, blogrolls and the like, into one huge knitting project, perhaps like a quilt? In other words, how does a loose community of bloggers and blogging create a collaborative whole? I like that we still need to make comparisons to other media to help define blogging; it shows that the medium is still so wide open, personal and public, solitary and communicative.
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