For many years, the act of making a documentary was meant to be an objective act of reporting the sights and sounds that the filmmaker, writer, or photographer encountered.However, in modern times, there has been a movement towards embracing the subjectivity inherent in the documentary form. This means that modern documentaries often reflect the distinctive voice and sensibility of their creator, and the fact that today's documentaries often revolve around personality blurs the lines between documentary and memory. Blogs rest somewhere between these two genres, shuffle the cards, the distinctions even further. Personal blogs, documentaries and memory are inextricably linked, for better or for worse.
Although few bloggers think of themselves as making documentaries in any formal sense, every time someone sits down in front of a computer and types up a record of their day, they are documenting their own time history. The things we take for granted in our daily lives, like how we use specific modes of transport, or types of products we buy, often seem quite fascinating to people who live in circumstances different from ours, andit is this kind of fascination that is at the heart of many documentary projects. When people think about blogging, documentary is not very likely to be the first adjective that crosses their minds, but a few decades down the road, it is very likely that blogs will be considered today primarily as very subjective documentaries of our era. The people of tomorrow will almost certainly turn to blogs today for a preview of our historical moment.
When it comes to blogging, documentary may not be the goal of most people who spend their time posting their thoughts and ideas on the Internet. In some ways, the documentary aspect of blogging is more of a side effect of a primary objective. However, the fact that so many people are interested in publishing these public online journals shows that personal blogs are more than just rumination. The fact that bloggers are so stimulated by and interested in sharing their ideas with each other reinforces the idea that personal blogs are in some ways, documentaries for public consumption.Documentaries appeal to people who are curious about other ways of life, and many people who regularly read others personal blogs are looking for this same kind of new perspective.
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