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By: Robert Darnton – Blogging: Now and Then (250 years ago) | OPEN REFLECTIONS

Robert Darnton – Blogging: Now and Then (250 years ago) | OPEN REFLECTIONS — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:19:26 +0000

[...] Things have been quiet here for quite a while now but I am hoping to upload a selection of new posts/writings in the next months, both new draft bits of my dissertation and some other writings on books and Open Access. For now I wanted to share my notes on a master class with book historian, librarian, and 18th century specialist Robert Darnton that I attended quite a few months ago now. Part of this master class was a lecture delivered by Darnton entitled ‘Blogging: Now and Then (250 years ago).’ The lecture was based on this blogpost for the NYRB. Also see an interview with Darnton on this subject here. [...]

By: Roger Walker

Roger Walker — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:48:33 +0000

I like the idea of eighteenth century thinkers, aesthetes, designers, and so on being able to communicate with each other. Everyone enjoyed gossip further back in time, such as the Fuger news letters. There were different strands of information just as there are today. For me, the difference is the relative smallness of the intellectual world of the times. The tiny 2% could keep in touch with the whole of Europe. In our day, the communicating groups are so heavily populated that it is difficult to appraise truly significant content from blather. Maybe it was just as hard then as now, but there was a much smaller audience for high level thought and preoccupations.

By: Blogging, 18th-Century Style | SGA History

Blogging, 18th-Century Style | SGA History — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:27:52 +0000

[...] Harvard Historian Robert Darnton on Blogging, 18th-Century Style – The Getty Iris. An 18th-century information society?It bugs me when people say, “we live in the information society,” as if ours is the first one that ever came into existence. Every society is an information society, according to the technologies of the time. [...]