Blogs as Art?

A lame mashup of a blog and art.

Recently, Longreads published a piece exploring the place of the blog in the literary space. Thirty years has passed since the first blog appeared. The piece’s author, Megan Marz, seems to to argue that the blog, while garnering attention when it was new and novel, has not earned the acclaim or serious consideration it deserves. People still prefer books, and Robert Silvers, a founding editor of The New York Review of Books lamented, in 2013, that there was “no…