My God! Cotty wrote more than a sentence on the list. The world is going to end!
More seriously, I started the journal as a way to let folks on this list know what was happening to me on my mildly adventurous journey to find a new home, so many people were reading it I kept it up until I realized that it had become a "woe on to me" thing then I stopped. The difference between my journal and your monthly update is we know how to write a bit of html. Blogs got started when someone developed a web logging (weblog, blog is the short-form) program that made it possible to put content up on the web without having a clue about html. Then someone thought, "My God, I could make some money with this!" Probably 90% of the people doing it are actually writing online diaries in the default log mode. The other 10% maybe put up something useful and interesting. Currently it is a fad, and that fad is already being replaced as I write this with podcasting (your don't even have to be able to write). The video version of podcasting seems to be locked into one site at the moment, if it ever becomes general it probably will take off too. The thing with a fad is "everyone is doing it", after it dies down only the dedicated do it. For crying out loud, they still sell hula-hoops. Whoops, sorry, as usual, I seem to have to analyze everything to death, --graywolf Cotty wrote: > On 20/4/07, graywolf, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> I can not imagine why anyone would want to do a blog. Of course I can >> not imagine why my journal, when I was doing it, was getting 3000 hits a >> month either. Maybe I should do a podcast then thousands of people could >> listen to me talk to myself... > > Tom, > > The internet is a weird and wonderful thing, right? > > You've been keeping an online journal for some time. A bit like a diary, > but not every day. > > I've been writing a monthly paragraph or two on the home page of my web > site since 1998. Changes every month, only missed three or four times. > First it was on www.macads.co.uk where I ran a free classified ads site > for Mac bits. I changed the welcome page every month. Now it's on > cottysnaps.com and I still do it every minth, and with a different pic > to boot ! > > I wouldn't call it a diary, or a journal. I'm not sure what I would call > it, but since late 1998, that's in the order of 100 entries. > > These things become fashionable, call it a blog and hey - the world's > your oyster ;-) > > People have been putting their thoughts into a 2-dimensional medium > since the first cave-dweller scraped some chalk across a rock wall, or > drew in the sand with a twig. All that's happening is that technology is > changing and allowing readers better access. Blog is the current > favourite. It's all just communication, and you either read it or you > don't. I certainly don't have any blogs bookmarked, although I have read > a few. But then again, if I buy a book, I tend to just look at the > pictures ;-)) > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
