Blogging. A private journal, journalistic or academic?
Wednesday, 8 Sept 2010, 06:54
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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Sunday, 8 July 2012, 13:05
Three Degrees of Blogging
If it plays to how it is defined, a ‘weblog’ then it should be nothing more than a captain’s log, in the style of Star Trek, that logs position and events as they occur.
Web pages, cobbled together into a journal like experience defy what the web affords.
The person who keeps a diary in a hardback notebook, or one of those Five Year Diaries with a flimsy padlock, have to keep notes on specific dates in the calendar, online the daily webpage is a falsehood, it is a devise that obliges something that is wholly unnecessary.
Personally, long ago, I ditched all pretence at writing a daily entry (even if I did so), by archiving entries by category.
Weblog as webstorage or repository.
More like the modern e-portfolio I suppose. The idea concept is easily controverted. Writing pages of fiction, with comments turned on make sharing and critique immediately possible. Allow any number of readers to contribute directly to the pages and the weblog becomes both a blog and a wiki.
Can we ‘wikify’ a website?
And do I coin such a word as soon as I tell my dictionary to accept the term? Which makes me wonder – is there a way for multiple users to share the contents of their dictionaries?
Blogging. A private journal, journalistic or academic?
Three Degrees of Blogging
If it plays to how it is defined, a ‘weblog’ then it should be nothing more than a captain’s log, in the style of Star Trek, that logs position and events as they occur.
Web pages, cobbled together into a journal like experience defy what the web affords.
The person who keeps a diary in a hardback notebook, or one of those Five Year Diaries with a flimsy padlock, have to keep notes on specific dates in the calendar, online the daily webpage is a falsehood, it is a devise that obliges something that is wholly unnecessary.
Personally, long ago, I ditched all pretence at writing a daily entry (even if I did so), by archiving entries by category.
Weblog as webstorage or repository.
More like the modern e-portfolio I suppose. The idea concept is easily controverted. Writing pages of fiction, with comments turned on make sharing and critique immediately possible. Allow any number of readers to contribute directly to the pages and the weblog becomes both a blog and a wiki.
Can we ‘wikify’ a website?
And do I coin such a word as soon as I tell my dictionary to accept the term? Which makes me wonder – is there a way for multiple users to share the contents of their dictionaries?