So I’m writing an old friend telling him about my blog and I’ve decided to put into written words my true feelings about “BLOGGING”. First the definition from our good friends at Wikipedia.com:
A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.
Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of most early blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.
The term “blog” is a portmanteau, or, in other words, a blend of the words web and log (Web log). “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
In November 2006, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 57 million blogs.
This is a nice definition and it discusses the “blogs” that bastardize the term blog for the public’s consumption. I’m talking about the “personally” directed “diaries” which is where most of the millions of blogs that are out there come from. These Journals or Diaries ruin it for someone who wants to provoke thought, feeling, or even action from the words he/she publishes to the public. Before I go onto my rant, I would like to say that I don’t expect anyone to care about my thoughts on any topic that I “blog“, but please notice I’m not talking about my cats, or what I had for dinner unless it pertains to something that might be relevant to a topic in which I’m trying to represent. HERE WE GO.
When wearing my “why the hell is that guy writing a public blog” hat, I will profess; a blog to be a single person’s expression, idea, feeling, or thought at specific time, on a topic that extends beyond that single person’s inner circle. This being said, “my cat Muffy ate a mouse last night, it was gross” is a diary entry not a blog post. The person who wrote that and the people who know both the cat and the person who wrote it might care about Muffy eating a mouse, and even be moved emotionally by it, and provoke action like “I’ll never step foot in that house it has mice”. But if I’m doing research about the primal instinct found in domestic cats eating mice, I hope not to find anything about Muffy ever, and this post has just polluted one of my main sources of research.
Yes, it frustrates me that there’s enough crap out there, a lot of which is personal blogging tar (to be defined if there is interest). Your daughter loves horses and there are a hell of a lot of people who can’t spell or may mistype, so your daughter is getting slutty pictures of someone’s ex-girlfriend naked because spell checker put in horse instead of whores :|. The funny thing is, and I hope there are some challengers out there cause I can’t write enough to describe the extent of this issue, but the infamous WHORE post would be a legit blog post, in my definition, and potentially damaging to the young lady, if in fact it had all pertinent information about the person’s ex-girlfriend. All of a sudden, a diary of a disgruntled significant other, now provides a single person’s account of another person, providing it’s readers reasons why they may not want to engage in the ex-girlfriends company, which probably wasn’t its intent. It’s intent hopefully was just to account for the incident so he/she doesn’t forget it, move on with life and hopefully not damage the ex-girlfriend’s character, and probably no one will read it :). COMMENTS.
To end cause I don’t know if most people will read this far:
BLOG: A single persons account of anything that may or may not interest anyone besides themselves, but there is at least a perceived interest from a third or fourth party. Hopefully this account or musing will provoke thought, feeling, or ideas from those who are interested in the blogged topic. Thankfully, the journaling feature of the blog stamps a time frame for continual readers or just interested parties to measure or track the thoughts on the topic by the single poster.
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