Comments on: Blogger Existentialism http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/blogger_existentialism/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:36:53 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Joe Carter http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/blogger_existentialism/comment-page-1/#comment-21142 Joe Carter Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:23:03 +0000 /?p=7057#comment-21142 <i>This isn't to say that blogging is somehow trivial...but simply that it's an additional mode of presentation not an additional kind of thing to be presented.</i> What Matt is essentially saying is, "I'm a serious writer dammit! I have a degree from Harvard and write for TAP so stop lumping me in with the unwashed masses who are nothing but wannabe-pundits-with-Internet-connections." This isn't to say that blogging is somehow trivial...but simply that it's an additional mode of presentation not an additional kind of thing to be presented.

What Matt is essentially saying is, "I'm a serious writer dammit! I have a degree from Harvard and write for TAP so stop lumping me in with the unwashed masses who are nothing but wannabe-pundits-with-Internet-connections."

]]> By: Attila Girl http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/blogger_existentialism/comment-page-1/#comment-21139 Attila Girl Fri, 30 Jul 2004 05:48:24 +0000 /?p=7057#comment-21139 I despise "author" as shorthand for "book writer." Author means "originator," so I don't like it when that word is used without specifying what that person "originated"--wrote. I also feel that not simply using the term "writer" somehow implies that the book (or books) in question was (were) actually written by someone else (that is, they used a ghost). I really do prefer the term "writer." I despise "author" as shorthand for "book writer." Author means "originator," so I don't like it when that word is used without specifying what that person "originated"--wrote. I also feel that not simply using the term "writer" somehow implies that the book (or books) in question was (were) actually written by someone else (that is, they used a ghost).

I really do prefer the term "writer."

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