Weblogs als Wunderkammer

„A Web log really, then, is a Wunderkammer. That is to say, the genealogy of Web logs points not to the world of letters but to the early history of museums — to the „cabinet of wonders,“ or Wunderkammer, that marked the scientific landscape of Renaissance modernity: a random collection of strange, compelling objects, typically compiled and owned by a learned, well-off gentleman.“ Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man via Kottke.