Between a Twit Posting and a Page-Length Blog

With the re-twit and facebook-on buttons slowly becoming an accepted part of our Internet experience, it does appear that a new space of reflection and writing has opened up that bridges the direct access to a link's referred web page and a one-liner message that only ever stays with us as we page newspapers through, scroll down the instantly updated blog-roll walls and scan twitter collections of concise news. It is like plugging the excitement of what captures imagination in an article into a tool that keeps the mental side-page note jottings written down, even if in a provisional blog format. It seems that what makes news novel cannot be merely captured in their factual content alone but requires reaching out to the similar moments of abrupt change, shifting circumstances, and unexpected constellations that in a flowing narrative form still wait for brief tags that would pull the outlines of a possible argument from the closely related to the subject matter accounts of authors who put feature articles together. It is not just the brevity but also the possibility to take comparative scope into account that does turn blog writing into a distinctive genre that can build on wikipedia articles. on-line magazines, and internet newspapers.