tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62553733818259188202011-07-30T16:58:08.431-07:00groove68http://www.blogger.com/profile/13122452176755112089noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255373381825918820.post-80744219780516692982009-07-14T02:12:00.000-07:002009-07-14T09:06:44.301-07:00What's in a name - blogwart<br /><br />A Blockwart was the National Socialist party snitch assigned to monitor the comings and goings of the people in his or her apartment house. This included reporting "Judenfreunde" (Jew-lovers) to the authorities and otherwise keeping the living "block" free of non-Aryans. In the GDR, a comparable function was in effect - officially called "Abschnittsbevollmächtigter" or "district authority" but informally known as blockwart, in referance to the odious Nazi police state abetters.<br /><br />So blogwart will ironically evoke a blog that is dangerously prying to German readers, while everyone else may think of Harry Potter's alma mater Hogwarts. A possibly intriguing semantic conflation - surveillance, betrayal, sorcery, skills, codes of conduct, individualism vs. collective...all important aspects of modern life and depending on their combination - useful or dangerous for humanity.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6255373381825918820-8074421978051669298?l=blogwart-groove68.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>groove68http://www.blogger.com/profile/13122452176755112089noreply@blogger.com1