A Blog Is A Blog Is A Blog - So what is a blog, really?
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Now let's take a look at that definition above. "Blog: an online diary" This requires another definition:
di·a·ry n. pl. di·a·ries
- A daily record, especially a personal record of events, experiences, and observations; a journal.
- A book for use in keeping a personal record, as of experiences.
I won't post the definition for personal, but for the most part it means private to oneself. Now I doubt many would open up and expose their true inner thoughts on the Internet; I would venture to guess that in this day and age of self-fulfillment, self-promotion, striving to make the almighty popular currency of your choice inserted here, most would write from a "what you want to hear" perspective.
I mean, let's be serious! If people really wrote what they thought, then imagine seeing these blogs:
Bill Gates Blog..."Dear software users, your jealousy of my money is really ticking me off today" or "What do you mean, why don't I let Microsoft Money manage my billions? I may be eccentric, but I'm not insane lol"
Mary Kate Olsen..."Why can't my damn sister Ashley just pig out and gain weight so I can"
Ashley Olsen..."Why can't my damn sister Mary Kate just pig out and gain weight so I can"
Anna Nicole Smith..."Put on all that weight so his kids wouldn't think I was a gold digger, and for what?" "Well at least I conned that diet company I promote"
Brin & Page Blog..."Larry has an idea to push Content Match which converts at 0.04% and charge advertisers for such poor performance....he is crazy...guess that's the difference between being just a millionaire and a billionaire. Billionaires know how to pull the wool over people's eyes a lot better"
Brin & Page Blog..."Sergy will learn, I looked at baseball players earning millions for only doing their job 30 percent of the time, so I figured if we had the lowest score like in golf, then we could make billions."
A blog is a personal diary, which if I remember correctly, everyone that I knew who had one kept it under lock and key. Some announced this fact with more fanfare than others, and that may be a direct correlation to some of us looking for said diary at every chance we could. So blogs do not remind me of any personal diary that I can recall.
Looking at the definition we see two terms many of us are already familiar with, Web logs and Web page. So a Web log is "chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page." Wow, now that is new, thoughts logged on a Web page. I remember seeing some of the first Web pages in 1988 or 1989 as a member of America Online. That was 16 years ago. I saw a lot of thoughts on Web pages, too. Web pages are nothing new. Maybe this blog thing is a fad after all.
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