Sunday, March 19, 2006

2) What is a blog then?

“What is a weblog? A weblog is a form and a format: a frequently updated website containing entries arranged in reverse-chronological order. But this simple form is infinitely malleable, and weblogs have huge potential for professional and private use. Easily maintained via computer or mobile devices, weblogs are organizing businesses, creating and strengthening social ties, filtering the World Wide Web, and providing a platform for ordinary people to publish their views to the world.”
~Rebecca Blood, 2000 (http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html)

“Web logs give voice to people whom just a decade ago, you never would have heard from. There are war blogs, peace blogs, food blogs, crude blogs, humor blogs, culture blogs to occupy your day. Geek blogs, freak blogs, teen blogs, mean blogs, fanaticals and radicals who like to rant away. Worker bees and histories, punditry and poetry, diversity, adversity and spicy verbal play. Optimists, pessimists, enthusiasts and hobbyists, journalists and journal-ists with something big to say.”
~Jennifer Balderama, 2002, “My blog, My self,” C/Net

  1. http://www.rebeccablood.net/about/
  2. http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/
  3. http://blogoffiction.blogspot.com/
  4. http://www.drudgereport.com/
  5. http://marc.blogs.it/
2 a) Can we have one definition for all blogs then?

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