I finally revised the definition I wrote of “weblog” for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative and sent it back to the editors. The changes were mostly small, the one I like best being a suggestion from an editor that I weave in something like “the standard genre expectation is of non-fiction”. So I did. What a quick summarisation of the whole truth/fiction debates.
Because there are lots of links to what is in fact a final draft rather than a final version, I pasted the new revised and hopefully finally final version into the same post as the previous version.
Oh, I sent the definition through the Gender Genie, too, thinking that it was so seriously written that it must be masculine, but no. Written by a woman, says the genie. Indeed.
nick
However, the author of this blog entry, “Revised Definition,” is, according, to Gender Genie, male!
Jill
Oops. I wonder who WAS the author, then?
The comments to my post on the Gender Genie, btw, point out many problems with it that I was too hasty to see – but yeah. Definitely. What you said.
Blog de Halavais
But wait. What if I’m a girl?*
Jill pointed to the Gender Genie, which employs a heuristic involving the use of particular words to infer whether you…