TraceyandPeter

Can someone enlighten me please?
Tracey

coxfamuk

I would also like to know!

JackTheLad

Its short for Weblog, a place where people record a diary of their life and thoughts on the web.

There a lots of blogging sites where you can set up a blog as easily as you would register with this forum. Look for Blogging sites, or weblogs in google, you'll find millions!!!

JTL

TraceyandPeter

Ah, it is clear now......

Rete

It is basically a public diary of someone who thinks the world cares about what they think and that their lives are so important that the cybercommunity must be made aware of their every life's occurrence.

Worse than a television soap opera.

boom_meringue

www.blogger.com

you can basically setup your own personal piece of self exposure.

JackTheLad

If you'd said that 2 days ago on this Australia forum you'd have got banned

JTL

coxfamuk

Surely only read by those that actually are interested? One assumes that they don't send out a www mail forcing everyone to read them.

Does your cynicism stem from the fact that you have actually been into these sites (by choice) and read them (by choice)?

Wonder if such attitude is necessary or fruitful?

CadburysFingers

An interesting comment coming from someone with over 11000 posts on here.

JackTheLad

The problem with blogs, to get a bit technical for a sec. Is that they quote each other i.e. linking to each others blogs. So one blogger would say he liked another blogger, and another would quote this and so on and so on.

This b*ggered up google, whos search algorithm uses (amongst many other things) the number of links to a page, to decide how important that page is , and how high up to place it on your search results. So for a while, when you did a search on something common that might be mentioned in a blog, like say Weather, you'd get 50 blogs as your top fifty results.

Now that was a few years ago, and they've obviously refined the algorithms to get rid of that dross. But to say, 'no one forces you to read it' is like saying if you chuck 50 copies of 'The Sun' at me, and one page of the thing I want, I shouldn't mind. Well, errrmmm... I do

Cheers,
JTL

Simone

Exactly.


Also, some blogs have interesting info in them/are about a particular subject.
Some blogs are for clubs.

Some blogs are entertaining. It can be like watching a tv show, or reading a book.
It's just an new medium to get things across.

Can be about food, books, politics, technology, news etc etc

Does not have to be about daily/regular things at all.

It can be anything someone wants.

See on this site a list of winners and nominees of the blog awards 2005:
http://2005.bloggies.com/

The categories:
Best Food Weblog
Best Entertainment Weblog
Best Weblog About Politics
Best Web Development Weblog
Best Computers or Technology Weblog
Best Topical Weblog
Best GLBT Weblog
Most Humorous Weblog
Best Writing of a Weblog
Best Group Weblog
Best Community Weblog
Best-Designed Weblog
Best-Kept-Secret Weblog
Best New Weblog
Lifetime Achievement
Weblog of the Year
Best Meme (A replicating idea that spread about weblogs.)
Best Article or Essay About Weblogs
Best Web Application for Weblogs
Best Australian or New Zealand Weblog
Best Asian Weblog
Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog
Best European Weblog
Best British or Irish Weblog
Best Latin American Weblog
Best Canadian Weblog
Best American Weblog
Best Tagline of a Weblog
Best Photography of a Weblog
Best Non-Weblog Content of a Weblog Site

Three Legs

Admin...

Ban this callous animal.

Reprehensible behaviour surely ?

I'm shocked...

Rete

LOL I have an edge in the BE Community ;-)

Rete

At one time they were called newsgroups ;-)

Simone

Things change....

Forum's didn't exist once! It was message boards I believe....

Oh, and once we didn't have internet. And oh, before that we didn't have television!