Blogging It
I am relatively new to blogging, although I have been a dogged reader and writer for many years. I also recently learned that this technology, but not terminology has been around since about 1996! although did not hit popular consciousness (ok, I didn't even have reliable broadband at home until 2002) until after 9/11 via journalists scathing critique U.S. international diplomatic initiatives, etc.
For myself, I started this from simply needing an outlet, more satisfying than ranting about topics with my friends over beers and such. I wanted a personal locus of defined topical writing, and images, in order to see that a "collage" of myself would look like after I'd worked on if for a significant period of time. It's been interesting to see just how long it takes me to develop this, to have concretely identified topics and content with enough significance to write about and "publish." Friedman, made an excellent point he discovered when writing his last book, when storing one's "bit and bytes" on a commercial network, what happens to this stuff when I die? Did you make a back-up of all this content you've been painstakingly working on, or is it just all out in cyberspace? Did you develop your content in a different location first, then copy it here in "edit posts" or did you just compose on the fly whenever the mood strikes? Are you ever going to go back and copy out your content to a back up disk? Does it matter if no-one reads or comments on your blog because it's identical to thousands of others in your demographic, or do you strive for social relevancy, to be part of the social and and cultural Zeitgeist? I think it's interesting the way there are only very few "blogs of note." The rest are just there, but really never get read or commented on. One is left to feel like a radical political candidate in a conservative race that no one cares about, because they are "too out there" and everyone is too busy just trying to keep up with the relevant basics.
baroqueMorales is beginning to fill the function of "self-marketing," a blog that may be read by general audiences, therefore the content will generally be rather professional and benign in nature, at least for the time being. I've read too many stories of individuals being fired from their positions for the intensely personal accounts and confessions not to the liking of their employers. Of course, one could take greater risks by writing a semi anonymous blog like "I'm an Intern in New York," but there is an element of dishonesty to that method I have an aversion to. I believe that the right to individual and intellectual privacy is now gaining momentum as a significant civil liberties issue.
Blogging has now bloomed to fill most traditional publishing functions, its main appeal of course is that it is an easily accessible technology. I really enjoy just clicking "next blog" or viewing "blogs of note" and reading and having access to so much design and content made public. Now I am a dogged blog-hopper, lurker and blogorrhean. Do people really use this terminology? I've never seen/heard it used in casual conversation before. It's only a matter of time I guess.
Blogging: Click on the wikipedia link provided to see a discussion much fuller than I am able to provide here. I am also enamored of new terminology related to blogging provided by wikipedia:
Blog hopping to follow links from one blog entry to another, with related side-trips to various articles, sites, discussion forums, and more.
Blogorrhea A portmanteau of "blog" and "logorrhea", meaning excessive and/or incoherent talkativeness in a weblog.
Blogroll A list of blogs. Usually a blogger features a list of his favorite blogs in the sidebar of his blog. These lists can be made dynamic using services like BlogRolling.
Dark Blog A non-public blog (e.g. behind a firewall)
Flog A portmanteau of "fake" and "blog". A blog that's ghostwritten by someone, such as in the marketing department.
Moblog A portmanteau of "mobile" and "blog". A blog featuring posts sent mainly by mobile phone, using SMS or MMS messages. They are often photoblogs.
Multi-blog Creating, maintaining, and running multiple blogs (2 or more) simultaneously.
Permalink Permanent link. The unique URL of a single post. Use this when you want to link to a post somewhere.
Troll A commenter whose sole purpose is to attack the views expressed on a blog. Trolls' verbosity can range from eloquent to crass, although many (if not the majority), unfortunately, fall into the latter category. (Wikipedia)
For myself, I started this from simply needing an outlet, more satisfying than ranting about topics with my friends over beers and such. I wanted a personal locus of defined topical writing, and images, in order to see that a "collage" of myself would look like after I'd worked on if for a significant period of time. It's been interesting to see just how long it takes me to develop this, to have concretely identified topics and content with enough significance to write about and "publish." Friedman, made an excellent point he discovered when writing his last book, when storing one's "bit and bytes" on a commercial network, what happens to this stuff when I die? Did you make a back-up of all this content you've been painstakingly working on, or is it just all out in cyberspace? Did you develop your content in a different location first, then copy it here in "edit posts" or did you just compose on the fly whenever the mood strikes? Are you ever going to go back and copy out your content to a back up disk? Does it matter if no-one reads or comments on your blog because it's identical to thousands of others in your demographic, or do you strive for social relevancy, to be part of the social and and cultural Zeitgeist? I think it's interesting the way there are only very few "blogs of note." The rest are just there, but really never get read or commented on. One is left to feel like a radical political candidate in a conservative race that no one cares about, because they are "too out there" and everyone is too busy just trying to keep up with the relevant basics.
baroqueMorales is beginning to fill the function of "self-marketing," a blog that may be read by general audiences, therefore the content will generally be rather professional and benign in nature, at least for the time being. I've read too many stories of individuals being fired from their positions for the intensely personal accounts and confessions not to the liking of their employers. Of course, one could take greater risks by writing a semi anonymous blog like "I'm an Intern in New York," but there is an element of dishonesty to that method I have an aversion to. I believe that the right to individual and intellectual privacy is now gaining momentum as a significant civil liberties issue.
Blogging has now bloomed to fill most traditional publishing functions, its main appeal of course is that it is an easily accessible technology. I really enjoy just clicking "next blog" or viewing "blogs of note" and reading and having access to so much design and content made public. Now I am a dogged blog-hopper, lurker and blogorrhean. Do people really use this terminology? I've never seen/heard it used in casual conversation before. It's only a matter of time I guess.
Blogging: Click on the wikipedia link provided to see a discussion much fuller than I am able to provide here. I am also enamored of new terminology related to blogging provided by wikipedia:
Blog hopping to follow links from one blog entry to another, with related side-trips to various articles, sites, discussion forums, and more.
Blogorrhea A portmanteau of "blog" and "logorrhea", meaning excessive and/or incoherent talkativeness in a weblog.
Blogroll A list of blogs. Usually a blogger features a list of his favorite blogs in the sidebar of his blog. These lists can be made dynamic using services like BlogRolling.
Dark Blog A non-public blog (e.g. behind a firewall)
Flog A portmanteau of "fake" and "blog". A blog that's ghostwritten by someone, such as in the marketing department.
Moblog A portmanteau of "mobile" and "blog". A blog featuring posts sent mainly by mobile phone, using SMS or MMS messages. They are often photoblogs.
Multi-blog Creating, maintaining, and running multiple blogs (2 or more) simultaneously.
Permalink Permanent link. The unique URL of a single post. Use this when you want to link to a post somewhere.
Troll A commenter whose sole purpose is to attack the views expressed on a blog. Trolls' verbosity can range from eloquent to crass, although many (if not the majority), unfortunately, fall into the latter category. (Wikipedia)