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What the hell is a blog?
Posted by Jaybetee • 7/08/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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So I started writing what I thought would be a pretty simple post today about what a blog is. Then I found myself going off on tangents, making the whole thing very abstract and complicated. So, I began editing and trying to bring it back.
If you have a chance check it out and let em know what you think. If you don't read it, I'd still like to know what a blog is to you and if you think what it is has or will change.
blog.blogcatalog.com/uncategorized/what-the-hell-is-a-blog/
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I am always upset when comments are closed on a blog!
Other than that, blogging is so new (relatively) that it has to change.
"What the hell is a blog?" Your post says it correctly, "Your blog is whatever you want it to be…and there are no real rules.”
I always complain that people read but don't comment, now I read a blog that has "comments closed."
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so weird. i wonder why it says comments are closed. have to go check that out!
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ok. i fixed it. comment to your heart's desire.
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I just like to complain.
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I suppose .. that's why you left it "uncategorized"? because you can't explain what a blog it?
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also .. until GOOGLE does a 301 redirect like microsoft (renaming "LIVE" to "BING") and changes their "BLOGGER" to something else ... blogs will continue to exist and be referred to as a blog.
Blogging platforms (wordpress etc) do not need to have open comments to be called a "blog" - it's a program which the whole point of it .. was to take the webmaster out of the equasion from the author. I do not mind sites that have no comment feature. I do think we all object a little, when we see sites WITH comment features, but are either "LOCKED" or "CLOSED" // this includes forums too btw.
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I can't define "blog" because they are all so different. -
For me its a online diary gone a bit mad -
An online documentation of the authors thoughts and ideas -
Everybody sing: "I wanna know what blog is... I want you to show meeeee..."
Er, sorry. -
An online space filled with whatever your little heart desires. -
One thing I wrote about was how blogging has changed--the way blogs look, the way they are used by companies, etc. Do you think blogs in their current state are how they will remain or do you think they'll continue to change?
I personally think that change is inevitable--especially for corporate bloggers--and what we think of as a blog today will be only part of what it is in the future, but who knows.-
Already since I've been blogging (2006), I've seen blog templates become more advanced-- more tab-oriented, wider, and magazine-like. And less like a single long-running narrow page.
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pretty soon blogs will be in the form of a little pill you take.
oh, wait... -
or like an osmosis machine, where i can just absorb what the world is thinking
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I guess if you combine 'blurbs' and 'log' then it becomes blog...and they are related anyway or weblog...never mind it doesn't help. -
I like to think of a blog as a unique opportunity for anyone to express themselves and their surroundings. For me, a blog helps me express my feelings as a Philadelphia sports fan to the rest of the world. I also am using it to get skilled in internet marketing, search engine optimization, and other useful skills from a business perspective. With such a large online culture, knowing how to market on the internet is something that will come in handy when I am out of school and building a business of my own, no matter what type of business it is.-
Nice! Go Phils! How sweet was that sweep of the Mets!
On the marketing tip, check out "Trust Agents" a book coming out soon by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. It's all about networking and trust. Could be a good read for you if you're into getting better at networking.
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for me a blog is cheaper than therapy
I say that there is no set definition for a blog because each person's is so uniquely theirs, and each has a different purpose. If I had to pick an answer though, I would say a blog is an informative and often interactive compilation of information, experiences and/or articles pertaining to an author specific niche. hehehe-
cheaper than therapy...I like it. I agree there is no set definition for a blog and that's what I found compelling and exciting--that we're in this world of blogging where there are no rules and innovation is happening like crazy.
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I left my comment there instead of here. I guess I hadn't really sat down and thought about it much, before. I know what a blog is for me but it's very different for a lot of people.-
it was a great comment...thanks!
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There are actually a lot of blog discussions ABOUT hell. o_0
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true dat
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Even more now.....
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Blog is the product of blogging :)… it is just a special space for creating, sharing, innovating, expressing and communicating too. -
A blog is a place bad writers pretend to be good writers.-
Haha! That is SO me. -
And me.
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I agree
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You agree that me and CA are bad writers?
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Yep
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Bloody cheek!
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what the? I was being sarcastic!
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Honesty is the best policy.
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*sheds a single tear*
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Well its best to know now, before you even think about writing a book or anything daft like that.
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I think I shall find a corner to cry in now...
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Let me know if you need a kick in the nuts
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is that where my ego is?
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Depends how big it is
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so that would be a yes?
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No idea, not sure where I was going with that.
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anyway...
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It's a yes, a big, spangly yes that you can stick on your shirt like a nametag and sparkle at people when you need to agree to something.
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I read a definition somewhere that said "a site on the internet where new content is added frequently".
Given the very diverse appearances of blogs nowadays, that seems to be more or less the only common factor. I guess a blog can be any website that has new posts or pages added to it every now and then. -
Trying to describe a blog in generic terms might be as easy—or hard—as trying to describe a room. It's nothing but architecture waiting for your content, which can fulfill all kinds of purposes in all kinds of forms.-
Wow!
That was very Master Poe, grasshopper. -
That's an excellent analogy, Mark!
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He stoled it from me.
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Have you read the 1984 novel "Neuromancer" by William Gibson? If not, you really should. He created the term "cyberspace" in the novel and defined it as:
"A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding."
I think on some philosophical level, that could also be a definition of a blog.
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