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I've thought it was just blah log= [bla ahg].
===== Original Message From Grant Barrett <gbarrett at monickels.com> =====
>On jeudi 22 février 2001 23:41, Jane Parker <jpparker at ISERV.NET> wrote:
>>This afternoon while listening to talk of the nation.  A bunch of
>>technophilliacs were discussing the impact of techknoloby etc.
>>Someone called in and was asking about the vast quantities of information
>>availible blah blah and refered to it as blog.  I think is was a contraction
>>of backlog.  None of the panel members could define the word. and so it
>>ended.  Anybody out there heard of blog?
>
>As someone who keeps two blogs himself, I will agree with Jane Parker's
observation
>that www.blogger.com is a good place to start and add a couple of things.
>
>The definition of blog is wide. One on end of the spectrum, it's a personal
diary.
>On the other, it's a list of "cool" links. In any case, most blogs have these
factors
>in common:
>
>1. Run by an individual rather than a company.
>2. Updates regularly, ideally daily in a kind of "log" format with dated
entries.
>3. Cool links provided.
>
>These days blogs are good generators and amplifiers of Internet memes, the
latest
>example I can think of being the "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" meme.
>
>The history of blogs is uncertain. Most people are willing to credit several
"what's
>new" pages that appeared pre-Yahoo (and even on Yahoo, back in the days when
*all*
>the new sites added to the net could be visited in an hour or so each day).
Bjorn
>Barger *did not* invent the blog.
>
>Some of the more popular blogs
>
>http://www.metafilter.com/    A group blog, run by an individual, but with
links
>posted by its members
>http://slashdot.org/                 Blog or not? Most people agree that it
is.
>http://www.memepool.com/     Group blog, again. With an emphasis on odd or
wacky
>links
>http://www.camworld.com/     One of the older blogs out there. Tech-oriented.
Lots
>of links to other blogs.
>
>--
>Grant Barrett
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