When I was eighteen I proto-blogged

Comment from my best friend. Note semi-English, semi-Norwegian.

I copied down lots of poems and lines from songs I liked.

Drawings - no Flickr back then, but doodles and drawings common.

Or maybe this is the equivalent of an emoticon!???

Style of writing expresses emotion much as font choice and emoticons express mood in today's blogs. I think this was a screening of Hair at a video making group I was going to.

Not quite a learning log, but I did use this to note down homework assignments. That was the intended purpose of the entire diary, really, though obviously not its main function.

Info about books I bought and read.

Noted movies gone too with brief assessment of their quality. Actually this is in Ingrid's (a.k.a. Ping) handwriting, demonstrating the social aspect of writing this artefact.

Calendar function - as in many weblog systems.

A very expressive one at that.

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When I was eighteen I proto-blogged by Jill.

I was thinking about what it means that 57% of teenagers today have published their own content online. What did teenagers do before the Web?

Here's what I did when I was eighteen. I must dig out my older diaries - I think this one was pretty restrained compared to earlier years. And yes, we'd pass them round the classroom and write in each others diaries.

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Elinesca says:

OH! I did that too!
:-)
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

Jill says:

Pictures, pictures!! You still have the diaries?
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

justin says:

That's awesome - I wonder if we could make Blogging or whateveryoucallit more flexible and personal like this page here.
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

Jill says:

Yes, looking at this makes emoticons and mood icons and all the rest of it look sort of tame - though the social aspect is immensely enhanced with blogs.

Maybe if we all had writing tablets and literally doodled on our webpages?
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

Fairyring says:

Maybe for those of us with tablet PC's we should try a month of picture blogging. This is also poetry month, maybe a little visual blogging/poetry could be an interesting experiment :-)
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

Jill says:

That would be really interesting! I don't have a tablet PC but I think I'll get a Wacom tablet.

Still, we could easily put drawings and doodles in blog posts, but it's harder to draw in the margins. I mean, yes, you can, but it's a lot more work.
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

*SΛM says:

Great artwork! :)
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

pictonym says:

I wrote letters, personally. Sometimes in code, always with illustrations. My best friend still has all of the ones I sent her; I got rid of my letter box, sadly.

Actually, we still send letters, only now we mail a little notebook back and forth -- much more like this.
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

TracyU says:

I just started a group called "The Calendar as Art". I'd love it if you'd add this photo!

flickr.com/groups/334283@N25/
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

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