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12:35pm...
Just come across an interesting article written by Cahal Milmo that appeared on the Cape Times website today, entitled Blooker Prize gives the self-indulgent blog a new status as a route to literary recognition, & it went like this:
London: To their champions, they are a form of virtual literature compiled with wit and vigour by the diarists of the 21st century. To their critics, they are electronic waffle, clogging up cyberspace with self-indulgent polemic.
But the status of the blog as a route to literary recognition seems assured after the results of an inaugural prize for "blooks", or books based on blogs, were announced.
There are about 60 million blogs on the internet, growing at a rate of 75 000 a day as more and more users post their daily musings on subjects from onions to quantum physics.
The Blooker Prize, established to reward books born on the web, aims to highlight the creating potential of the blogging culture. If not poetic gems, then at least mainstream fiction and non-fiction.
The Blooker Prize was given to Julie Powell, a former secretary in New York, for her book, Julie and Julia - based on her blog chronicling her campaign to cook all 524 recipes in a classic French cookbook in her small kitchen in a year.
Since publication, the blook has sold 100 000 copies and secured its author a publishing contract. It beat Belle Du Jour, the best-selling chronicle of a London prostitute and the leading British contender on the 14-strong shortlist.
Powell, 32, who spent 30 minutes every morning writing her daily blog before going to work, said she was "delighted and humbled" to win the prize.
She said the idea that the blog culture was a potential gold mine for publishers had been overstated.
"It has certainly provided me with an entree into mainstream publishing," said Powell. "But there is some gimmickiness in the idea that blogs are some untapped resource for literary greatness.
"It is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a great writer."
With plans afoot to turn Julie and Julia into a film - making it the world's first "flook" - organisers of the prize claim it is evidence of the growing significance and commercial success of the blog medium.
Egg Bacon Chips and Beans, another British blook shortlisted for the prize, was published after the online version, a guide to 50 greasy spoon cafes, became a cult hit.
The Belle Du Jour blog, long suspected to have been an exercise in guerrilla marketing by an unnamed mainstream author, was receiving 15 000 hits a day at the height of its success.
Cory Doctorow, chairman of the judges and the editor of Boingboing, the world's biggest group blog, said: "Those who dismiss blogging as mere confessional writing and complaining about one's day job fail to appreciate just how engrossing those genres can be."
Despite its punning take on the prestigious Booker Prize, the Blooker has not received any attention from lawyers for the more established award.
It is financed by an American-based print-on-demand company, which "publishes" authors' books on the internet and turns them into printed books for a fee.
Bob Young, the multi-millionaire owner of the company, said: "In five years' time, it may be that we will be better known than the Booker."
But anyone expecting instant riches by winning the Blooker should think again - the winner receives R12 000.
A blog, or "web log", is a regularly updated website, often created using ready-made software templates.
Some are little more than personal diaries, but others offer links to news sites or original analysis on a range of subjects from typography to international politics and global warming.
The 2004 election in the United States experienced the growing influence of political blogging.
Blogs have emerged as an important source of "citizen journalism", with contributions from areas such as Iraq.
After the 2004 tsunami, blogs emerged as an information exchange.
- The Independent
It's seriously HOT women & incredible clothing stores like this that really & truly make me consider moving back to London...
YUMMY
12:35pm...
Just come across an interesting article written by Cahal Milmo that appeared on the Cape Times website today, entitled Blooker Prize gives the self-indulgent blog a new status as a route to literary recognition, & it went like this:
London: To their champions, they are a form of virtual literature compiled with wit and vigour by the diarists of the 21st century. To their critics, they are electronic waffle, clogging up cyberspace with self-indulgent polemic.
But the status of the blog as a route to literary recognition seems assured after the results of an inaugural prize for "blooks", or books based on blogs, were announced.
There are about 60 million blogs on the internet, growing at a rate of 75 000 a day as more and more users post their daily musings on subjects from onions to quantum physics.
The Blooker Prize, established to reward books born on the web, aims to highlight the creating potential of the blogging culture. If not poetic gems, then at least mainstream fiction and non-fiction.
The Blooker Prize was given to Julie Powell, a former secretary in New York, for her book, Julie and Julia - based on her blog chronicling her campaign to cook all 524 recipes in a classic French cookbook in her small kitchen in a year.
Since publication, the blook has sold 100 000 copies and secured its author a publishing contract. It beat Belle Du Jour, the best-selling chronicle of a London prostitute and the leading British contender on the 14-strong shortlist.
Powell, 32, who spent 30 minutes every morning writing her daily blog before going to work, said she was "delighted and humbled" to win the prize.
She said the idea that the blog culture was a potential gold mine for publishers had been overstated.
"It has certainly provided me with an entree into mainstream publishing," said Powell. "But there is some gimmickiness in the idea that blogs are some untapped resource for literary greatness.
"It is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a great writer."
With plans afoot to turn Julie and Julia into a film - making it the world's first "flook" - organisers of the prize claim it is evidence of the growing significance and commercial success of the blog medium.
Egg Bacon Chips and Beans, another British blook shortlisted for the prize, was published after the online version, a guide to 50 greasy spoon cafes, became a cult hit.
The Belle Du Jour blog, long suspected to have been an exercise in guerrilla marketing by an unnamed mainstream author, was receiving 15 000 hits a day at the height of its success.
Cory Doctorow, chairman of the judges and the editor of Boingboing, the world's biggest group blog, said: "Those who dismiss blogging as mere confessional writing and complaining about one's day job fail to appreciate just how engrossing those genres can be."
Despite its punning take on the prestigious Booker Prize, the Blooker has not received any attention from lawyers for the more established award.
It is financed by an American-based print-on-demand company, which "publishes" authors' books on the internet and turns them into printed books for a fee.
Bob Young, the multi-millionaire owner of the company, said: "In five years' time, it may be that we will be better known than the Booker."
But anyone expecting instant riches by winning the Blooker should think again - the winner receives R12 000.
A blog, or "web log", is a regularly updated website, often created using ready-made software templates.
Some are little more than personal diaries, but others offer links to news sites or original analysis on a range of subjects from typography to international politics and global warming.
The 2004 election in the United States experienced the growing influence of political blogging.
Blogs have emerged as an important source of "citizen journalism", with contributions from areas such as Iraq.
After the 2004 tsunami, blogs emerged as an information exchange.
- The Independent
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