Not Everything Is A Blog

Dec 29, 2006

And I totally agree. There are many “blogs” around here that are not blogs. Just because you are using a blogging software doesn’t make you a blog. An article in The Inquirer exclaims: Stop calling everything blogs! A blog, by definition, is a web log, that started with the concept of “personal log”. A blog is, when you share you thoughts with a community of readers. For instance, I’m sharing my thoughts with you on this link I just found through the 901am blog. I’m not merely feeding you with a link; I’m also sharing with you what I think about this idea of calling everything a blog. The author rightly says:

If there are more than one person writing for the ‘blog’, especially if they get paid, it is a site. The INQ has a staff of many, as does Boing Boing, CNet and Slashdot. Just because you read it on a browser (that little blue ‘e’ that brings spyware in for the local news crews reading this) and it does not have an associated cable channel does not make it a blog. Really. Not a blog.

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All professional bloggers are not bloggers
December 30th, 2006 at 9:07 am
[...] All professional bloggers are not bloggers Amrit from Content Blog highlighted an couple of articles yesterday about people calling everything blogs. Actually, this thought was in my mind for a while, especially when I was posting about the Corporate Blogging and Internet Marketing yesterday. Its so true isn’t it? [...]