A Blog Is A Blog Is A Blog
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Have blogs been overhyped? Why are businesses becoming so enamored with blogs now, when they've been around in other forms for a long time? More importantly, will advertisers end up destroying the very medium they're seeking to exploit? Clint Dixon explains his viewpoint.
Main Entry: blog
Function: noun
Definition: an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page; also called Weblog, Web log
Example: Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author.
Etymology: shortened form of Weblog
Usage: blog, blogged, blogging v, blogger n
My definitions for Blog: minimalist website. Advertiser Exploitation # 1,945,823. Wannabe website.
Hopefully I can help you uncover the fallacy of the blog. Why is it such a pervasive part of our current psyche on things related to the Internet world? I think perhaps it's just the hype. What was once the bastion of free thinkers is now filled with parrots and opinions. According to the proverb, opinions are like...well you know what I mean, we all have one.
I can stand outside and yell at the top of my lungs that the moon is green, I can go on radio and television and profess again that the moon is green, I can run ads in newspapers, magazines, billboards, taxis, trains, planes and automobiles that the moon is indeed green, and I can post it online in a forum, a chat room, an instant message or my blog, http://www.sem-seo-pros.com/blogger/blog.htm or post it to a website (which is what a blog really is anyway). I can post all over that the moon is green, I can convince you as you sit reading this that the moon is green (it is, of course), but tonight when you look up in the sky, all of the above will be disproved. The moon will still be white, and I will be just another voice, in a sea full of crowded opinion and little fact.
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