Chapter 11. Pushing Boundaries of the Blog Format

One of the attractions of blogs is their capability to be become anything you want. People are creating innovative ways to organize random bits of information and disseminate them through publishing tools. This section covers unique sites that defy categorization.

Innovative Ways to Use Blogs

1947 Project

http://1947project.blogspot.com/

The 1947 Project is a blog devoted to displaying daily posts from Los Angeles newspaper stories published in 1947. Writers Kim Cooper and Nathan Marsak use period reporting to tell about the lives of ordinary people at that time dominated by a film noir sensibility and inhumane tabloid stories such as the “Black Dahlia” murder mystery.

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