Rosie's Blog - VOICE
I'm consumed lately thinking about "voice" online. Not identity. That seems so clinical and "coded." Blogs give us a platform to use our voice in all it's nuance, clarity or fog. How much will we use on our blog? In comments on others' blogs.How much in an email? How much in a private online discussion space? What does it tell the reader about us? What does it disguise?
danah boyd and I talked a bit about this yesterday as we plotted ways to bring different voices to BlogHer in July. Then someone mentioned Rosie O'Donnel's new blog, r blog. I had to go read it because Rosie has appeared to me (my experience of her voice) as someone who is an insider as a performer and celebrity and outsider because of her embracing of things that some folks don't like. (Insiderness and outsiderness is also another fascinating thing to think about.)
Rosie brings a poetic, humanly-imperfect (that's a compliment) and vibrant voice to her blog. Defiance is the wrong word, but it feels defiant of expectations of a "star." She has a flikr feed. Dang, this blogger has 
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posted by Nancy White at 1:57 PM
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