More on the author function and blogging

So after Dr Crazy responded to my post about the author function, I did a little extra research on it and decided that it was applicable to blogging (after some really serious hemming, hawing and panicking because the paper is due in 3 days) because if I met a blogger, I'd want to know more about them. I can't claim to know who Heather B. Armstrong is, I just know Dooce. I'm friends with Dooce, not Heather. I know she's constantly constipated, but I would never know what to get her for her birthday. The same goes for most other kinds of blogs. We know what these bloggers have to say about politics, theory, life in general, but we don't (and can't claim to) KNOW them.

This reader's guide from a theory class at Lawrence University was really helpful-

http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60A/handouts/author.html

I will also have to address the "Founders of Discursivity" bit, which is what I think was referred to in the comments section with regard to Virginia Woolf. It's put a lot of things in a new sort of perspective...

Anyway. Its coming along. Discursively though, because I'm not an authority, but am desperately trying to look like one.