time.com — How many blogs does the world need? There is already blog gridlock. When the Washington Post editorial page started a blog before this year's conventions, participants (I was one) were told: Don't forget that the Post political staff also has a complete set of blogs.
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adkencNov 24, 2008
ah 1, ah 2, ah 3...ah 3.
gruntboyxNov 24, 2008
As many as Freedom of Speech will Allow.
honoredmuleNov 24, 2008
I opt for the term "website." It seems somehow appropriate for this "unspecified content that may or may not be periodically updated or appended with new content, in text format, carried on a collection of interlinked web pages that are likely hosted from the same logical location."A medium is a basic transport method, not a presentational format. You wouldn't call documentaries a different type of medium from sitcoms. When you use a term like "documentary," you are implicitly specifying a type of content in a type of medium. Yet when you use a term like "blog," you are specifying a presentational structure in a type of medium...as if "what is the actual content" were the /least/ important detail. Furthermore, in the video world, we can still say "video" when talking about something we produce that doesn't match any more specific content descriptors--and those descriptors that actually say something about "what it is."Doesn't this seem odd? We are dividing the basic "web page" definition of a medium into various other presentational/content format definitions such as "web application," "blog," or "aggregator," and referring to them as if they were actually different mediums and/or our websites have to be one of those non-things. Somehow the word "website" has been relegated to obsolescence despite not actually having any functionally equivalent word and being the closest match for what people most often intend to communicate.
honoredmuleNov 24, 2008
Some people's sarcasm detectors are off.I'm afraid your comment was not up to clarity specifications, and will have to be removed by order of the FCC.
Closed AccountNov 24, 2008
Call me old school, but to me a blog is something personal, not these things newspapers call blogs.If you hire writers and have deadlines, not a blog. If you write it at 2 am, at your home, with your boxers on ,eating Ben and Jerry's, while you bitch about that **** at work today, probably a blog.