Which of the following titles is most likely to incite your interest (and, all things being equal, compel you to assign, buy, copy, or steal the book)?
Blog Theory
Blog/Theory/Drive
The Death of Blogging
After Blogging
After Blog
Affective Networks
Do you think a lolcat inspired design would be lame?
Thanks!
The Death of Blogging.
I am not big on lolcats. But perhaps someone typing at a computer in their underwear?
Posted by: Alain | October 29, 2009 at 04:15 PM
sorry, but none of the above and yes...
Posted by: pollywog | October 29, 2009 at 04:15 PM
after blogging, after blog, death of blog seems strange because afterall, if there is a book about it, it suggests to me that we aren't "after" or in the "death" but immanently in it. but as for me, you had me at DRIVE, anything with drive i'd want. so blog/theory/drive.
as for the cat, what is the cat going to say? i mean is there some evident irony involved? if so that could be funny. but then, i had to google what lolcat was before i commented, so i may not be the best person to ask.
Posted by: Jocelyn Atkins | October 29, 2009 at 04:57 PM
how about a fat balding hairy shirtless white guy typing on a laptop while sitting on the toilet with his stained briefs covering the private parts and call it 'all blogged up'
Posted by: pollywog | October 29, 2009 at 05:13 PM
death of blogging
Posted by: n'nahme | October 29, 2009 at 05:24 PM
Blog Theory
Posted by: eli | October 29, 2009 at 05:59 PM
jodi, what about "infinite theory"?
Posted by: petar | October 29, 2009 at 06:27 PM
I like Blog/Theory/Drive but the editor doesn't (I think it evokes Image/Music/Text). The editor likes Blog Theory (and also suggested some of the other options, which are variations or repetitions of chapter titles).
Another cover idea includes doing something with a word cloud, but that can create problems of reading the title...they want an answer, but I don't have one yet...
Posted by: Jodi | October 29, 2009 at 07:01 PM
"This fact I emphasize with stress,
I never steal a book unless - Somebody's writing.
Captain is a very moral man.
Hooray for Captain Blogger, The E-book explorer... Hooray Hooray Hooray"
Since there are already a lot of titles that proclaim deaths of countless things, i suggest one which would imply what is dead in blogging:
"Return of the Unblogged"
Posted by: Mehmet Çagatay | October 29, 2009 at 07:09 PM
Return of the Unblogged is very good--in some ways, it does point to the undercurrents of drive that are a key part of the argument...although the return in drive isn't quite the return of the repressed but more the return of the sublimated...but is it too cryptic?
or just cryptic enough?!?!
Posted by: Jodi | October 29, 2009 at 07:31 PM
ms.dean, more than "the return of the repressed", "the night of the living blogger" was in my mind. Anyway, i think it would be a very good title if the goal is to incite reader's interest. you really don't want a title including such boring and predictable words as theory or dead. "after blogging" might be fine but it evokes terry eagleton's book.
Posted by: Mehmet Çagatay | October 29, 2009 at 09:15 PM
Why People Blog.
Posted by: joe | October 30, 2009 at 01:24 AM
We've Got Blog Theory (with a review attached called "Deconstructing 'We've Got Blog Theory'")
But seriously, I think something with Affective Networks is best, because it tells me the most about what's inside.
Also, for some reason that title is the best fit if you're going with an LOLcats cover.
Posted by: Michael | October 30, 2009 at 06:37 AM
"Blog Theory" doesn't tell me enough (and sounds like a textbook). The "death" & "after" titles say something that is probably too specific. And "Affective networks" says something altogether different (and sounds like a lot of other people's work). "Blog/Theory/Drive" tells me this is a book by Jodi Dean. That gets my vote.
Posted by: ai | October 30, 2009 at 08:16 AM
Affective Networks or the Return of the Unblogged
Posted by: Old - Doug Johnson | October 30, 2009 at 09:55 AM
I agree with Old. Unless you can come up with a cutesy, mass market oriented title with conveys the same thing but then that kind of audience wouldn't connect with this author. I liked "After Blogging", out of a weak field, because it conveys a sense of where we're at socially speaking and segues into the notion of communicative capitalism that I'm sure would be a sub subject of any work by Jodi.
Blogging imo is/was the last stand of "real" communication, next stop is the neofascism and/or self censoring (yes I'm equating these, I'm not an academic but I know a thing when I see it) of Facebook and the triteness of a now dimming Twitter-sphere.
Posted by: Bob Allen | October 30, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Blog Dreams: Drive, Affect, Theory in the Public Sphere.
Posted by: joe | October 30, 2009 at 01:04 PM
Theory in the Blogosphere.
(That's not a serious entry, but I like the contest, maybe the winner gets a cupcake!)
Posted by: joe | October 30, 2009 at 01:11 PM
I like Affective Networks. Everything with Blog and theory in the title would make me not want to pick it up, I read plenty of theory and blogs -- affective networks, however, makes me feel good inside.
Posted by: Rick | October 30, 2009 at 02:45 PM
Theory in Blogland
Posted by: Mark | October 31, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Blogorrhea
Posted by: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1014417506 | November 01, 2009 at 02:46 PM
I like the first two.
Posted by: lightkeeper | November 01, 2009 at 06:52 PM
After-Blog Theory?
What about "After the Blog is Gone"? Earth, Wind and Fire? LOL.
Posted by: Teo | November 02, 2009 at 12:02 AM
To Blog or Not to Blog?
Posted by: Jeff Wild | November 03, 2009 at 06:19 AM
A Bog of Blogs...?
Posted by: Ginny | November 04, 2009 at 05:29 AM
"Return of the Unblogged" is good.
I think the era of the slash title has passed, sadly. Sad because it was able to make connections without causality.
How about "User Generated Content"? There are at least three double meanings there.
Posted by: neographite | November 04, 2009 at 10:46 PM
is "death of the blogger" too cheesy?
Posted by: Matt | November 07, 2009 at 12:14 PM
after-blog.
just because it sounds like after-birth.
Posted by: Drone Module | November 08, 2009 at 08:26 AM
Pop the blog
Posted by: celia | November 09, 2009 at 01:19 PM
either 'pop goes to blog bubble' or blog theory!
Posted by: Barret | November 09, 2009 at 03:24 PM
that's 'pop goes the blog bubble'
Posted by: Barret | November 09, 2009 at 03:26 PM