Talk:Blog/Archive 1

message: Next quibble: "A weblog ... is a website that tracks headlines and articles from other websites." That would have been a decent definition before about 1999. But now that excludes Weblogs like the Fermi National Laboratory Accelerator Update [Google cache], not to mention practically all the Weblogs on LiveJournal. The defining feature of a Weblog, I think, is that it gives more prominence to the date an item was posted than other Web sites do. (I have to go home now, but I'll revise the article later if no-one does it first.) -- Mpt 07:32, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: More definition quibble

message: It's a shame that this entry conflates blogs with weblogs. It could use some disambiguation with an entry on blogs and one on weblogs. Blogs are more about one person whereas weblogs are more like a news website. Andrew Sullivan's site is a blog, whereas Slashdot and Kuro5hin are weblogs. I looked through this entry and didn't see any mention of weblog software such as phpNuke and PostNuke. This entry conflates blogs and weblogs and will end up confusing people.
This entry should also talk about personal zines, which are really the cultural phenomenon that precedes blogging. In fact, there are more than a few perzine editors who made the move from printed perzines to blogging. Blogging really follows in the footsteps of all the zining that was going on in the 1980s and 90s.
Chuck0
Blog: http://chuck.mahost.org
Weblog: http://www.infoshop.org/inews/
:I have never heard of a distinction between blogs and weblogs.  If you want to include that in the article, you might want to mention that most do not make the distinction.  I absolutely agree, though, that personal zines were a precursor to weblogs. - cobra libre 19:15, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)
::Yeah I always thaught blog=weblog. To define it otherwise would really muddy the waters. More debatable would be whether or not Slashdot can really be classed as a blog. Where is the boundry between community blogs and plain old news sites-- Nojer2 16:04, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I looked around, and found server log, which covers the first definition.  It's an orphan and deadend right now.  Christopherlin 02:50, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Weblog versus blogs

message: This line was in the entry:
:As of 2001, possibly due to the introduction of broadband Internet making self-hosted sites easier, the popularity of blogs increased dramatically.
I wasn't sure what the original author intended that to mean, but as it stands it is incoherent.  So I took it out.
-Fuzzrock
::Looks to me like the sentence says that Blogs became more popular after wider access to faster internet connections made it easier to host their own sites, including blogs. I have no idea whether that's correct, as I really don't know anything about the subject, but the sentence is coherent. Could use a little rearranging, perhaps, for aesthetics. -- कुक्कुरोवाच|Talk‽ 19:33, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Broadband

message: Do we put all blogs that Wikipedia contributors want to put there? --Menchi 07:57 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)
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I'm an RC junkie.  This page got my attention after an anon added (his own?) to the list of example blogs.  I have renamed "Example weblogs" to "Noteable weblogs" and cleaned house accordingly.  The purpose of an example is to give someone an idea of what is being discussed.  A few examples will suffice in this case.  The list had grown excessively long, effectively becoming a place to "list your own blog."  That is unnecessary and contrary to the spirit of the Wikipedia.  Some of the blogs listed no longer exist.  In one case, the blog still exists but the blog begins with "Why I've stopped blogging."  I cleaned the list to include only noteable, active blogs.  I believe these should be plenty to use as examples.  I'm not familiar with all of these blogs, so I may have made errors of judgement as to which are actually noteable.  Feel free to modify the list, but please do keep the new header "Noteable weblogs" to keep this list from becoming a long list of advertisements.  SWAdair | Talk  09:55, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: The Blog Examples

message: First, List of notable weblogs (which contained content originally in this article) went through VfD and the decision was to delete.  Then, List of notable weblogs was redirected to List of weblogs, which also went through VfD and the decision was to delete.  Now, recently, there have been two attempts to add this Wikicracy-rejected material to the Weblogs article itself.
I'm just one person (of course), but I'm going to revert any re-addition of this content.  It was rejected by the wikicracy twice, and it needs to stay out.  If there's an issue with this, take it to mediation instead of starting an edit war. -- Stevietheman 17:58, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: List of weblogs

message: I think the key aspect of a blog is how easy it is to update. The reason they are so popular is that you don't necessarily need to know anything about HTML to have one, if you use Blogger or LiveJournal. This allows anyone to produce one, which gives us the variety and range of blogs that you can find today. 
In other words, the huge number of them is almost certainly down to their ease of creation and ease of maintainance. How you could prove this, I don't know. Out of interest, does anyone have any idea how many blogs exist today (whether still updated or not)?     --Adam (03/11/04)
According to the BBC: Technorati now estimates that the number of blogs in existence has exceeded 4.8 million. Some speculate that less than a quarter of this number are regularly maintained. Céçaquiéça 22:46, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Ease of Use