A Structure for Blog Postism

July 8, 2008 • 12:57 pm • POSTED BY adamrgarcia

Esteemed anthropologist, author and blogger Grant McCracken wrote in his essay Blogging: What It’s For:

Some people are entirely without themes and pretty completely episodic. Others are the captives of a few mighty themes and their slavish repetition. All of us hope for a sweet spot: a body of smart and various themes that organize without compressing discourse, that give us analytic range without costing us focus, that give the blog an exoskeleton without specifying what it must look like day to day.

As a way to create a sort of structure to start out my 160over90 blog posting career, I decided I’d start with some regular, weekly, features. You can looking forward to at least these 3 blog-posts a week from me.

Minneapolis Monday will be showcasing the work of creative people from the place I call home, frigid Minneapolis, Minnesota. I’ll be looking at arts organizations and organizers, musicians, designers, artists and studios. Maybe I’ll even do some interviews. That would be pretty cool. Yeah, I’ll do some interviews

Wednesdays will be Humpday Inspiration. A creative quote, a short video, motivational dialogue that keeps you marching forward. The kind of thought-provoking content that gets you saying things like, “What a thought-provoking piece of content. Now, I would like to change the world.” You know, that kind of thing.

And Fridays will be Famous Ping Pong Player Showcase Friday. Ping-Pong’s a big deal ’round these parts (the 10th floor of 1 South Broad, Philly). But do we really know who the movers and shakers of the game are? Well, I don’t. I’ll be drawing an illustrated portrait and giving a really brief description of each player.

Now, I know it’s not Friday, but we’ll start with this guy.

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Jean-Phillippe Gatien

Jean Phillippe Gatien started playing Table Tennis at the age of 5. In 1993, Jean-Philippe Gatien became the first Frenchman to win a world men’s singles championship title in Gothenburg. He’s won the Men’s World Cup in ’94, the ’91 and ’93 Mediterranean Games, and made it to the ’97 Euro Top 12 in Table Tennis Championship. In 2004, he retired, and started an organization called “Ping Attitude,” which helps kids from disenfranchised French neighborhoods by getting them involved in the rigorous sport.

Many “blades” have been created with his help such as the Yasaka Gatien Extra, the Extra 7, the Offensive 40 and the Extra 3D Soft Carbon. Gatien focused on creating blades that assisted different techniques for different individuals.

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Until tomorrow!