What is a blog?
May 23rd 2005, 2:00 am
#16
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Re: What is a blog?
I remember the days where we never had a washing machine and mum bought my knickers from Tesco.
It was blogging terrible it was.
It was blogging terrible it was.
May 23rd 2005, 2:07 am
#17
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Re: What is a blog?
Originally Posted by 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!
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!
Things seemed to have reversed these days. There are loads of sites on how to get your blog more 'visibility' (i.e. more people to read your diary)
JTL
May 23rd 2005, 2:16 am
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Re: What is a blog?
Originally Posted by JackTheLad
I remember the days when as a kid I would keep a paper diary, and actually lock it with its own little padlock to keep it private.
Things seemed to have reversed these days. There are loads of sites on how to get your blog more 'visibility' (i.e. more people to read your diary)
JTL
Things seemed to have reversed these days. There are loads of sites on how to get your blog more 'visibility' (i.e. more people to read your diary)
JTL
Unless it's a commercial one obviously.
I still have a diary with a lock from when I was 15/16. Very interesting stuff in :scared:
May 23rd 2005, 2:24 am
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Re: What is a blog?
I blog.... have been doing it for over 6 years now on my privately owned site specifically for my family and friends to keep up with stuff that they miss being that we are so far away.
Sometimes, it's just easier than ringing 60 people to tell them all the latest news (I got a job, got fired, bought a house ..whatever..)
I regularly check a friends blog to see what's up with her and how her rapidly growing child is changing.
I see nothing wrong or "boring" about it...just depends on who it is and if your interested.
And BTW Rete.... MILLIONS of people watch the soaps daily, riveted by the trite story lines and cheesy acting.... no accounting for taste huh?
Siren
Sometimes, it's just easier than ringing 60 people to tell them all the latest news (I got a job, got fired, bought a house ..whatever..)
I regularly check a friends blog to see what's up with her and how her rapidly growing child is changing.
I see nothing wrong or "boring" about it...just depends on who it is and if your interested.
And BTW Rete.... MILLIONS of people watch the soaps daily, riveted by the trite story lines and cheesy acting.... no accounting for taste huh?
Siren
May 23rd 2005, 2:31 am
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Re: What is a blog?
Originally Posted by Simone
I still have a diary with a lock from when I was 15/16. Very interesting stuff in :scared:
JTL
May 23rd 2005, 2:43 am
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Re: What is a blog?
Originally Posted by JackTheLad
Ok post that, we'll read it and tell you how interesting!!!
JTL
JTL
Thing is, it's not long enough ago to be funny. It's still embarrasing.
So maybe in 10 years
Christina. You have put it well. That's part of what I was trying to say too.
I have just started a blog too. It will be for myself(to laugh about in 20 years), and for family and maybe some friends. I will not be promoting it in public! Though, it won't be a very personal one, it will be more about what we do in the weekends etc, with photo's.
Anyway....I really have to go to bed, and Pascal has to go on the computer!!!
May 23rd 2005, 3:10 am
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Re: What is a blog?
Originally Posted by Simone
he he, no way!
Thing is, it's not long enough ago to be funny. It's still embarrasing.
So maybe in 10 years
Thing is, it's not long enough ago to be funny. It's still embarrasing.
So maybe in 10 years
Oh dear
So no hot sex then?
Cheers,
JTL
May 23rd 2005, 3:13 am
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Re: What is a blog?
Originally Posted by 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
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
May 23rd 2005, 4:53 am
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Re: What is a blog?
Originally Posted by coxfamuk
Now I understand and point taken!
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