Monday, March 5, 2007

Blog as Narrative


This week we will be looking at a film which is partially structured as a reverse linear narrative. I wonder if any of you have thought about the reverse chronology of the blog format as a narrative form?

The traditional blog format is a rolling log (no pun intended): a dated space to list information where the newest entry pushes the older entries down the list. When you read a blog, you either read through it as it is formatted: from most recent to least, or you scroll down to find the post you last read and then read from "bottom to top" so you can preserve chronology or see any cause and effect (sometimes important if one post is a commentary on a previous one).

Blogs are such a ubiquitous form on the internet (note the 60 million in the wikipedia article in the screenshot above) that I wonder if reverse chronology is becoming the new linearity.

Any thoughts?

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