Apparently he has not found a barber since he coined the term……… Kidding!!!
Some pretty good advice there. Don’t agree with it all, but not a bad list at all.
Did this guy fall off the equipment truck from 1998 ZZ Top tour?
Is Al Gore ( the inventor of the inter net) his daddy?
useful err clever,…
Maybe I should send him some links to barbers,…
🙂
I f you have more original posts …
You just might be thinking and speaking for yourself!
IMO – that’s something worth pursuing.
What’s wrong with opinion or focus on a topic or dedication to a theme.
Jorn’s idea of the weblog as a chronicle of exploration is limited.
I noticed though that it did not take too long for some of the commenters on his post to start attacking him for his politics!
In the strictest terms his definition of weblog is actually very correct. A log of where he has been on the web. Like everything about the net, others have taken the idea, expanded on the idea and added presonal takes on the sites they visit.
Really, would Blogs be as popular or as influential as they if all they came out as were site links?
He awards points for comments?
Hey Jim: See Instapundit.
He offers some good advice the so-called “progressive” CBC worshiping, NDP ass kissing, dictator loving crowd:
4. Being truly yourself is always hipper than suppressing a link just because it’s not trendy enough. Your readers need to get to know you.
I like his list. #9 seems a bit too specific though, not that his list needs to become some sort of ‘ten commandments of blogging’ or anything.
He didn’t seem to mention comments, which are probably the most controversial aspect of blogging. (By the way Kate, your site gives one heck of a strong argument for supporting comments [most of the time]!)
Hmm… tenth birthday of the blog.
Not very old, is it?
Personally, I greatly enjoy blogging.
Anyway, IMHO, the way I see it, having more links than original posts may mean that one doesn’t have a whole lot to say, or is too timid to opine on the subject matter of the links. Then again, it might just be a matter of preference for those with too little time to tap the keys to give their two cents about everything. It’s still worthwhile to post links to stuff so that others who’d otherwise miss it will benefit from such findings.
For me, I do both linking and opining in the same posts, mostly. When I find something I want to link to, I usually don’t hold back my take, particularly when my take differs from that which the MSM and the Left are offering. And when my take is highly controversial and hard-hitting, boy, what a rush! The more folks there are like us bloggers who offer links with our own take, with reasoning, logic and perhaps further, supporting links, and the more folks reading them and adding their own takes thereabout, the better off society will be, for the increased diversity of voices, greater number of sources of information, etc…
Without the blogosphere, things would be quite different, I’m convinced. We’d probably still have a Liberal government, actually. John Kerry might be US President. And there’s a lot of stuff we wouldn’t know about, no doubt, as the corrupt, elitist, mostly very-left-wing, brainwashed and clueless MSM sure isn’t going to act in the best interests of the people!
The web was not a sudden creation on the 7th day.
The blogger form factor evolved out of years of our flitting about from BBS to BBS.
Like everything, blogging is partly shaped by recent BBS history. = TG
Apparently he has not found a barber since he coined the term……… Kidding!!!
Some pretty good advice there. Don’t agree with it all, but not a bad list at all.
Did this guy fall off the equipment truck from 1998 ZZ Top tour?
Is Al Gore ( the inventor of the inter net) his daddy?
useful err clever,…
Maybe I should send him some links to barbers,…
🙂
I f you have more original posts …
You just might be thinking and speaking for yourself!
IMO – that’s something worth pursuing.
What’s wrong with opinion or focus on a topic or dedication to a theme.
Jorn’s idea of the weblog as a chronicle of exploration is limited.
I noticed though that it did not take too long for some of the commenters on his post to start attacking him for his politics!
In the strictest terms his definition of weblog is actually very correct. A log of where he has been on the web. Like everything about the net, others have taken the idea, expanded on the idea and added presonal takes on the sites they visit.
Really, would Blogs be as popular or as influential as they if all they came out as were site links?
He awards points for comments?
Hey Jim: See Instapundit.
He offers some good advice the so-called “progressive” CBC worshiping, NDP ass kissing, dictator loving crowd:
I like his list. #9 seems a bit too specific though, not that his list needs to become some sort of ‘ten commandments of blogging’ or anything.
He didn’t seem to mention comments, which are probably the most controversial aspect of blogging. (By the way Kate, your site gives one heck of a strong argument for supporting comments [most of the time]!)
Hmm… tenth birthday of the blog.
Not very old, is it?
Personally, I greatly enjoy blogging.
Anyway, IMHO, the way I see it, having more links than original posts may mean that one doesn’t have a whole lot to say, or is too timid to opine on the subject matter of the links. Then again, it might just be a matter of preference for those with too little time to tap the keys to give their two cents about everything. It’s still worthwhile to post links to stuff so that others who’d otherwise miss it will benefit from such findings.
For me, I do both linking and opining in the same posts, mostly. When I find something I want to link to, I usually don’t hold back my take, particularly when my take differs from that which the MSM and the Left are offering. And when my take is highly controversial and hard-hitting, boy, what a rush! The more folks there are like us bloggers who offer links with our own take, with reasoning, logic and perhaps further, supporting links, and the more folks reading them and adding their own takes thereabout, the better off society will be, for the increased diversity of voices, greater number of sources of information, etc…
Without the blogosphere, things would be quite different, I’m convinced. We’d probably still have a Liberal government, actually. John Kerry might be US President. And there’s a lot of stuff we wouldn’t know about, no doubt, as the corrupt, elitist, mostly very-left-wing, brainwashed and clueless MSM sure isn’t going to act in the best interests of the people!
The web was not a sudden creation on the 7th day.
The blogger form factor evolved out of years of our flitting about from BBS to BBS.
Like everything, blogging is partly shaped by recent BBS history. = TG