Lindgren sees the blog as representing multiple genres and adapting to multiple rhetorical needs. The adaptability of the blog is what drew the Ecotone authors, who saw blogging as a sort of experiment in constructing "a sense of self informed by place." Lindgren sees the place bloggers as building with their blogs "a unique discursive space," in which they could safely explore the complexities of online life and life in particular places.
- "Writing takes place. It takes place socially and rhetorically. To write is to position oneself within genres"
Anis Bawarshi
"Instead of linking to other places on the net, we are linking to places period." (Chris, Bowen Island Journal)
Chris goes on to define the "hyperlink" as a device for meaning-making; this is the sort of connection-making that allows for a sense of place identity. In essence, "the ability to make such links presupposes inhabitation, of being in a place in order to be able to write about it."
According to the Ecotone wiki:
"Place bloggers write, on one level, about the place where they live: its ecology, its beauty, the particular quality of nature in that place, and their relation to it. On another level, place bloggers are concerned with larger questions of ecology and land use, the future of the environment, and human beings' relation to (or alienation from) the world we inhabit and share. And on a still deeper level, many place bloggers are exploring the whole notion of 'place' itself: where and what is this elusive idea of place, in its broadest sense, and what does it mean to us as spiritual beings in perpetual search of something called home?"
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