Comments on: Blogging is Dead. Long Live the Blog. http://chrislott.org/story/blogging-is-dead-long-live-the-blog/ Musings on education, techology, and life.. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:23:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: beau http://chrislott.org/story/blogging-is-dead-long-live-the-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-119787 beau Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:56:41 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2007/11/17/blogging-is-dead-long-live-the-blog/#comment-119787 blog: short for "web log", i.e., a log on the web. QED. ;) And I forget how vehement you are about Nielsen. For me, well, I'll never forget the dude who introduced me to the term, "informavore." blog: short for “web log”, i.e., a log on the web. QED. ;)

And I forget how vehement you are about Nielsen. For me, well, I’ll never forget the dude who introduced me to the term, “informavore.”

]]> By: Chris L http://chrislott.org/story/blogging-is-dead-long-live-the-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-118629 Chris L Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:06:56 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2007/11/17/blogging-is-dead-long-live-the-blog/#comment-118629 Wrong. To be a blog in a technical sense there must be, amongst other things, mechanisms for syndication and aggregation. There were blog-like things before there were blogs (I kept one), but they don't fit the definition. Blogs are not just web pages, nor are they dynamic web pages. As a technical item they have distinctions. My point is not about the technology, but the conflation of the term blog with a certain kind of CONTENT. Talking about "blogs" as if they are one kind of thing in terms of CONTENT is wrong-headed, something I've said from the beginning. The only thing consistent about Alertbox and that tired, expired hack Nielsen is that he is so consistently WRONG about technology since 1998 or so. The quicker he is forgotten the better. Wrong. To be a blog in a technical sense there must be, amongst other things, mechanisms for syndication and aggregation. There were blog-like things before there were blogs (I kept one), but they don’t fit the definition.

Blogs are not just web pages, nor are they dynamic web pages. As a technical item they have distinctions. My point is not about the technology, but the conflation of the term blog with a certain kind of CONTENT. Talking about “blogs” as if they are one kind of thing in terms of CONTENT is wrong-headed, something I’ve said from the beginning.

The only thing consistent about Alertbox and that tired, expired hack Nielsen is that he is so consistently WRONG about technology since 1998 or so. The quicker he is forgotten the better.

]]> By: beau http://chrislott.org/story/blogging-is-dead-long-live-the-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-118537 beau Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:31:31 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2007/11/17/blogging-is-dead-long-live-the-blog/#comment-118537 Just because I so enjoy flogging deceased equines, this a complementary liability of distinguishing "blogs" as some separate entity. Blogs are web pages....sometimes one handcoded page with infrequent updates, sometimes massive db backed cms systems. The term never did identify a single monolithic entity, but instead was a hip way to talk about doing what Alertbox had been suggesting all along---dynamic content gets more visits. Just because I so enjoy flogging deceased equines, this a complementary liability of distinguishing “blogs” as some separate entity. Blogs are web pages….sometimes one handcoded page with infrequent updates, sometimes massive db backed cms systems. The term never did identify a single monolithic entity, but instead was a hip way to talk about doing what Alertbox had been suggesting all along—dynamic content gets more visits.

]]> By: Jim http://chrislott.org/story/blogging-is-dead-long-live-the-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-117049 Jim Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:41:17 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2007/11/17/blogging-is-dead-long-live-the-blog/#comment-117049 <blockquote>Saying “I don’t like blogs” is really saying “I don’t like the net” or “I don’t like things being published.” I doubt most who use those words actually mean that.</blockquote> I am going to use this one. I fid myself often calling WPMu and UMW Blogs an open source publishing platform not a blogging system. At a presentation over a week ago I started by saying "Don;t call it a blog, call it ...." What I was really looking for, however, was what you said here, thanks Chris -next time I wlll be better armed for my sermons :)

Saying “I don’t like blogs” is really saying “I don’t like the net” or “I don’t like things being published.” I doubt most who use those words actually mean that.

I am going to use this one. I fid myself often calling WPMu and UMW Blogs an open source publishing platform not a blogging system. At a presentation over a week ago I started by saying “Don;t call it a blog, call it ….” What I was really looking for, however, was what you said here, thanks Chris -next time I wlll be better armed for my sermons :)

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