tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post5197503373289561672..comments2024-01-06T05:34:00.027-06:00Comments on Blog Meridian: Mish-mashJohn B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06358811061653958120noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-39446987344969634412007-11-15T15:08:00.000-06:002007-11-15T15:08:00.000-06:00Saw Casshern, loved it, talk about food for the ey...Saw Casshern, loved it, talk about food for the eyes. No the subtitles aren't great but you'll figure out what's going on or not, it helps if someone you're watching it with knows the language.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-82058027953760078882007-11-14T06:44:00.000-06:002007-11-14T06:44:00.000-06:00Thanks to both of you for stopping by.As to the qu...Thanks to both of you for stopping by.<BR/><BR/>As to the question of Sunshine State, I've run across blogs in the past whose writers are fictional--that is, the persons whose voices their blogs purport to record are imagined ones. But, I know this because that fact is announced somewhere on the blog, usually in the banner.<BR/><BR/>I'm not exactly angry about being duped, but I do feel duped, John B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06358811061653958120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-82941951709929533282007-11-13T15:43:00.000-06:002007-11-13T15:43:00.000-06:00I think if it's fiction and readers don't know it'...I think if it's fiction and readers don't know it's fiction, then it's a lie. I would feel manipulated as a reader thinking all along the character was a real person. <BR/><BR/>As a genre, in my experience, weblogs are nonfiction. If they don't say otherwise, it's assumed they are telling the truth, or the author's view of the truth. <BR/><BR/>I assume the FIN creator's book will be labeled "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-79655988247155070242007-11-13T06:11:00.000-06:002007-11-13T06:11:00.000-06:00Thanks for the plug. As to the "Sunshine State" bl...Thanks for the plug. <BR/><BR/>As to the "Sunshine State" blog, I wonder what sort of ethical issues such behavior raises. I realize, one shouldn't accept everything one reads on the internet at face value, but when does an author have an obligation to his/her readers to let them know something is fiction.<BR/><BR/>Interesting thought.<BR/><BR/>Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com