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This is an archive of Talk:Blog before Feb 2006.
Would someone else confirm that Stevie is dead wrong about weblogs being web applications? There are lots of web applications for creating weblogs, but it's like saying a book is a printing press. -- robotwisdom 02:21, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
"pitas" redirects to an irrelevant wiki.
Where is the confusion? "Blog" is just a slanged version of "web log" or a log on the web. I don't even see how the definition of application enters into this at all. --Anon, July 6th, 2005
Could someone please explain what is objectionable about this link? It isn't just a search engine, it enables user to look at the relative popularity of a topic of their choice in the blogosphere and is unique in this way. I think it would be interesting for anyone doing research on the content and influence of blogs. Or would it be better to link here, another page from the same site, which is a showcase of selected trends? -- newsjunkie 13:15, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Am I the only one who reads the History section and wonders whether it was written by bloggers who imagine the blogosphere (and by extension themselves) to be far more important and influential than it really is? I get the impression that if blogs had been around 15 years ago this article would be crediting them with the downfall of Communism, the end of Apartheid, the ouster of Maggie Thatcher, and maybe even putting Hubble into orbit. JAQ 11:38, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Stevie-with-the-egomaniacal-handle-and the-inability-to-read-and-respond writes: "A weblog is an application of the web... If you create a weblog from scratch, you're still applying the web in a specific manner." Stevie's rationalisations are increasingly adhoc and insupportable. This is not what 'application' means, as I tried to explain above, at some length. Stevie's use of 'implementation' is similarly bizarre. The Web is not something that can be applied, but rather the expression 'web application' refers to software applications that reside on the Web. I'm coming to the conclusion that Stevie's attitude needs to be addressed as recurrent vandalism. -- robotwisdom 19:12, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
There's been questions raised as to whether I'm really Jorn-- I don't know how to prove it but here's proof I have access to his website. -- robotwisdom 19:45, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Obviously your offensive handle is "Stevie is the man!" which you flaunt after every post. I've never seen any sign that you tried to understand anything I've written-- you exist in a bubble of ego where no one else's opinion matters. You don't notice that everyone else who's entered this debate agrees with me, not with you. You've obviously never bothered to read the article web application. You make absurd egomaniacal judgments about my background without bothering to research them or to acknowledge your errors when I point them out. You reflexively revert to your version without paying any attention to others' views. So what good are you? -- robotwisdom 02:18, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The statement "a weblog is a web application" is clearly not a "fact", because it is rather obviously disputed. It is at most an opinion or a (seemingly minority) perspective. Tverbeek 12:18, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Man, some people don't like to admit they're wrong, do they? robotwisdom is right; let it go. Uttaddmb 01:37, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Stevie: weblogs are not a web application, Blogger is a web application, WordPress is a web application, but blogs are not. You say wikis and discussion boards are web apps which is also wrong. MediaWiki or PHPwiki are web apps, but the resulting published content isn't.
In the "Creating and publishing weblogs" section, there is a sentence:
How can a "web-based publication" have a programmatic feature? Interesting. :) — Stevie is the man! Talk | Work 15:34, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
Are people still looking for input, or can I remove the listing? Dan100 ( Talk) 20:11, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. Dan100 ( Talk) 14:10, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
This new section reads like a proposal for how blogs could be used, or maybe an analysis of something that a few people are doing, rather than a description of a common, existing type of blog. (I also wonder if the external link in the middle is self-promo.) Any disagreement? Tverbeek 22:24, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Proposed merge because the term is better covered as a section of weblog. -- Christopherlin 02:32, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
I second the merge, as the wider readership of weblog will allow greater adherence to NPOV for the multi-blog article. See Talk:Multi-blog. -- DonIncognito
Merge. No sense having it split that I can see.
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Baylink 17:03, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Merging would make the entry simpler to read, rather than having to go onto another page which, essentially, compliments or partially duplicates the first. -- Nightstogether 08:45, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
Seem reasonable. The only problem I see is that this article is already really long (45k) -- Sketchee 15:59, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
I hate to feel like I'm being possessive, just because I was the one who started going nuts on this minor subcategory, but did anyone catch when and why ACSblog was added as an influential blog? Further, is there support for its inclusion in this list? Technorati rankings and similar ratings of the "most popular" law blogs always include the others, including Volokh, Howard's How Appealing, etc. Is this non-POV, just site-plugging by an ACS member or fan? ACS is the American Constitution Society, a self-described progressive alternative to the Federalist Society, q.v., which Supreme Court nominee John Roberts was not a member of. ACSblog.org is also, as far as I can tell, currently down. :) -- Eh Nonymous 20:05, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Besides blogs and wikis what other formats, templates are there?... Or what other formats, templates are new?... Or what other formats, templates are being developed that might even replace blogs, wikis?... dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu 07:02, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
The subsection on medical blogs mentions blogs "that deals with actual patient cases." Can we have a link (in the article or here) or explanation or something? Bondegezou 16:13, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
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Blogorrhea -A portmanteau of " blog" and " logorrhea", meaning excessive and/or incoherent talkativeness in a weblog.
I always thought that this was a portmanteau of "blog" and "diarrhea" (also spelt as "diahorrhea")... Meaning pretty obvious... Even if that's not the origin, I think it's a commonly assumed definition.
A common mistake, maybe. rodii 15:25, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Could we perhaps remove all external links to examples of blogs from this article? The few that are notable and worth linking have articles we can link, and the others are just non-notable blogs people wanted to promote and added in. What's more, we shouldn't be putting external links outside the external links section except for references, which these aren't. -- fvw * 21:49, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
The intro to this article is rather long, and pushes the table of contents down the page to the point where it is not immediately useful. Perhaps this should be reorganized? Thesquire 06:25, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
There are a large number of categories of blogs, with most categories having very little text. If there is no objection, I plan on consolidating a number of the categories to create tighter and easier to read article. Thesquire 06:33, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
According to the article: "Ham radio also had logs called "glogs" that were personal diaries made using wearable computers in the early 1980s."
Wearable computers in the 80's? "Glogs"? Via ham radio? Is any of this true?? Korny O'Near 18:32, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
I posted the cleanup notice because this article is a mess and I don't have enough time to clean up all of it myself. If you want to help, you do some of the tasks mentioned above, or help out in any way possible, really. For example, the History section is much too long and merits its own article - if someone willing to massively edit that huge section were to split it off, that'd go a long way towards making this article shorter and more readable. Most text past the Formatting section needs to be substantially re-written, if not removed as dross, so feel free to do that as well. Thesquire 17:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
I was just wondering if anyone knows the word X in this sentence: "X is to blogging as reading is to writing"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.216.186.197 ( talk) 09:14, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Isn't stretching to distinguish the concept of a blog or blogging from something like "traditional websites" or "usenet forums" an admission of the inherent reality that in fact blogs are not distinguishable from these activities or concepts at all? It seems clear to me now that you can't compare blogging to web publishing because in fact what has happened is that web publishing has become blogging. We struggle to compare between this and that precisely because we cannot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.247.195.136 ( talk) 00:43, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
This is an interesting point. There certainly are similarities between all the forms of electronic communications, which are not limited by the inherent motives of political discussion driven by commercial "news" vendors. What is most interesting of all in this new media is the lack of constraint on volition that the civil society of yesterday suffers. Bloggers, and others, in this media say what is on their minds, which offers a better view of reality than political pundits spinning stories for politicians.
[[User:Vigdor Schreibman] 23 December 2005
The statement "while The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other establishment media outlets formed a mass media cheering section for the revolution in telecommunications, Schreibman's News Columns and Special Reports conveyed a radically different story: of "telco feudalism" enacted by that revolution, in a legislative process that was rife with corrupt polticial influence peddling, by Congressional leaders such as Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS), and by House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA)." Seems to be partisian even with citation in place. Just becaule Dole and Gingrich may have done it, and from that paragraph it is hard to understand what is being claimed, it doesn't mean that people on both sides of the isle aren't guilty of simular things. Dark Nexus 16:52, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
"Netrality" is not the point in enlightened journalism or blogging. The whole idea of political discussion is to participate in shaping our community or civilization in some profound way toward betterment. If "Dark Nexus" can think of other examples of political corruption he should add them, rather than exercising the despicable practice of unilateral censorship, which failed the test of legitimacy in the Dark Ages
Who is Vigdor Schreibman? I removed several paragraphs about him (including an inappropriate section header). There were many early Internet journalists. If he started in 1993, he certainly wasn't the first person posting news to the Internet. I've never heard him referenced as the first blogger, actually I've never heard of him at all. This strikes me as vanity. Rhobite 20:00, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
If you do not know who Vigdor Schreibman is you might enjoy browsing his website at URL: http://sunsite.utk.edu/FINS 141.156.141.205 06:54, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Who the hell keeps adding that tripe in. I'm AFDing Vigdor Schreibman article right now. -- Timecop 00:43, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
AfDing the Vigdor Schreibman article may be right, but it's totally unproductive as a response to what's happening in this article. I propose that the Vigdor material, edited down, be included as yet another bullet point in the "Precursors" section (without the claim of being the first blog, since this begs the question of the definition of "blog"), and if the edited material is deemed notable on its own, another article be created specifically for it at Federal Information News Syndicate. Comments? Also, whoever keeps blanking or reverting the blanking or that section, knock it off and participate in the discussion here. rodii 20:28, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
This is not a POV question, but is there nothing criticizing blogs out there, not any negative voices? It seems everyone has good things to say, but does the medium have any inherent flaws? bodhidharma 01:27, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Most or all efforts to insert content on Vigdor Schreibman appear to be by Vigdor Schreibman. OmniCapital is part of Schreibman's OmniCapital.org. Whois shows 141.156.91.165 and 141.156.138.45 are registered to Verizon in Virginia. Schreibman appears to live in the D.C. area. Some of the edits are signed by Schreibman. The person keeps reverting to the same version, even though that removes work done by others. Schreibman needs his own article, but he does not deserve inclusion in the Blog article. If Schreibman is the persistent editor here, then perhaps his shunning by colleagues in the Press Gallery was merely due to his personal style. Someone who represents himself through a self portrait in the style of van Gogh is making a bold statement: "There is no such thing as bad press." User:Anthony717. 27 December 2005.
To actually determine the consensus on the issue, I propose a straw poll. This is the text involved:
Vigdor Schreibman and Internet news
The Federal Information News Syndicate (FINS), Vigdor Schreibman] Editor & Publisher, was from its inauguration on Jan 11, 1993, an Internet-based news organ; its web-based archive -- the first "blog" -- was located, first, on Jan 9, 1994 at the University of Maryland, as FINS InfoAge Lib. Three years later this archive became, on Aug 20, 1997, Fins Global Information Age Library, at SunSITE (Sun Software, Information, and Technology Exchange) located at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where it has operated continuously during the past eight years. This archive was designed as an experimental "digital library" containing back issues of Fins News Columns and Special Reports, as well as pivotal public policy papers "communicating the emerging philosophy of the Information Age."
Vigdor Schreibman was also "the first Internet-based writer to seek accreditation from the Congressional press gallery," according to Michael Wines, writing in his "Media" column at The New York Times, Feb. 26, 1996, at D7. The threat of Internet-based news reporting alarmed the establishment press. Wines sought to disparage internet-based reporters in his story. He compared them with "throngs of Lilliputians" like the editor of FINS, who inhabit the virtual world of cyberspace while reporters of the established press were depicted as "Gullivers," "a colossus of a creature" drawing upon the imagry of the story of " Man-Mountain, told by the great eighteenth-century satirist Jonathan Swift in his book Gulliver's Travels.
However, the fiercely independent, Internet-based news reporting set in motion by Vigdor Schreibman quickly established a new mode of reporting that did not conform to the elitest imagry Mr. Wines sought to convey. Nor were these internet-based reporters -- the first bloggers -- likely to become merely acquiescent tools of the Big Money controlled Congress and its compliant news media.
While The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other establishment media outlets formed a mass media cheering section for the revolution in telecommunications, Schreibman's News Columns and Special Reports conveyed a radically different story: of "telco feudalism" enacted by that revolution, in a legislative process that was rife with corrupt polticial influence peddling, by Congressional leaders such as Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS), and by House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA).
Those stories were to pave the way for a new class of media politics with an "unforgiving toughness and a mastery of new means of communications" that within a decade exploded into a serious challenge between " The Beltway versus The Blogosphere, as reported by Howard Fineman in Newsweek-MSNBC, September 14, 2005. In the early days of the 21st-century the politics of Internet Bloggers has become a powerful new instrument of Countervailing Power moving toward an overthrow of the governing class.
The next crucial generation of bloggers will be compelled to democratize communications with the facilitation of technology that can manage A Technique of Democracy which is needed to "form a more perfect Union" as the First Americans envisioned in the Constitution of the United States. In the absence of a genuine Union the governing system will be guided by the coercive phenomenon of "Groupthink" responsive to raw power alone,
which is what has been occuring for some time.
Votes shall be Keep or Remove, with arguments supporting the vote following. -- Thesquire ( talk - contribs) 23:36, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Upon further thought, I think it wise to also have a Modify category, with such a vote being followed by either a brief synopsis of the proposed modification, or a wikilink to a user subpage of the proposed modified text. -- Thesquire ( talk - contribs) 23:15, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
(I've never been to a discussion on a Wikipedia article before, so I hope I don't do anything wrong. Please let me know if I do) I have been under the impression that a blog, has to have some kind of feed (RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0, Atom 0.3, 1.0, etc.) for its posts in order to be a blog, and not just any website with information posted in reverse chronological order. In the same way that a podcast has be be included in some kind of feed that lets you subscribe to it in order for it to be a podcast and not just an mp3 file with people talking (or music for that matter). But nowhere in the article about blogs are feeds even mentioned, although it is beyond doubt that feeds are an important part of blogs. But are they as important as I've thought (that is, you have to include a feed to call your website a blog), or am I mistaken? The above unsigned comment was by User:Forteller at 21:06, 30 December 2005 -- Thesquire ( talk - contribs) 05:39, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
a moblog is just another blog genre; I propose merging. - Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/ [C] RfA! 10:08, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Recent section additions of "moblog" and "cultural blog" have started to show a pattern. When is a topical area a whole type? It could be worrying if we are just making this stuff up. Do bloggers in the music industry consider themselves "cultural bloggers"? It is okay to accept convention, but here convention is sort-of being made out of whole cloth. And who will follow it? It would be great for this article to be the origin of new terms, although that might not be proper. It would be sad if a student referenced the article, only to be admonished by his or her teacher for using a term that does not exist. Anthony717 23:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
What about trendy blog elements such as HNT which has mass participation across different types of blogs? They exist in different blogs, and are therefore elements, rather than types of blogs, for they do not themselves characterise the blog. At what point do fads become rituals? Presses above question about "new terms." Since it is widely participated in (perhaps a form of blog "slang"?), can something like it be considered to have evolved from blogs? Is it the "fennel salad" of the noble blog, or the "buffalo wing night", and should both be considered blog cuisine? —the preceding unsigned comment is by Coloneldoctor ( talk • contribs) 00:39, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
redirects here but the word doesn't appear in the text. (Or at least, Ctrl+F doesn't find it.) Could anybody who knows about multiblogs please add a few words about them to the article? Thanks -- 147.122.2.211 16:48, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Since I've had to revert this twice, I'm going to talk about it. This is not a sentence:
If you eliminate the clause "allowing full user manipulation of the situation to their specifications", you are left with "Therefore". "Therefore", by itself, is not a sentence.
The previous sentence is fine. Daniel Quinlan 02:03, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Unless anyone objects, I'm going to create another archive page for this talk page in a few days. -- Thesquire ( talk - contribs) 21:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
This book, available online under a CC license, could probably be used as a reference somewhere. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.113.100.70 ( talk • contribs) 22:20, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
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This is an archive of Talk:Blog before Feb 2006.
Would someone else confirm that Stevie is dead wrong about weblogs being web applications? There are lots of web applications for creating weblogs, but it's like saying a book is a printing press. -- robotwisdom 02:21, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
"pitas" redirects to an irrelevant wiki.
Where is the confusion? "Blog" is just a slanged version of "web log" or a log on the web. I don't even see how the definition of application enters into this at all. --Anon, July 6th, 2005
Could someone please explain what is objectionable about this link? It isn't just a search engine, it enables user to look at the relative popularity of a topic of their choice in the blogosphere and is unique in this way. I think it would be interesting for anyone doing research on the content and influence of blogs. Or would it be better to link here, another page from the same site, which is a showcase of selected trends? -- newsjunkie 13:15, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Am I the only one who reads the History section and wonders whether it was written by bloggers who imagine the blogosphere (and by extension themselves) to be far more important and influential than it really is? I get the impression that if blogs had been around 15 years ago this article would be crediting them with the downfall of Communism, the end of Apartheid, the ouster of Maggie Thatcher, and maybe even putting Hubble into orbit. JAQ 11:38, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Stevie-with-the-egomaniacal-handle-and the-inability-to-read-and-respond writes: "A weblog is an application of the web... If you create a weblog from scratch, you're still applying the web in a specific manner." Stevie's rationalisations are increasingly adhoc and insupportable. This is not what 'application' means, as I tried to explain above, at some length. Stevie's use of 'implementation' is similarly bizarre. The Web is not something that can be applied, but rather the expression 'web application' refers to software applications that reside on the Web. I'm coming to the conclusion that Stevie's attitude needs to be addressed as recurrent vandalism. -- robotwisdom 19:12, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
There's been questions raised as to whether I'm really Jorn-- I don't know how to prove it but here's proof I have access to his website. -- robotwisdom 19:45, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Obviously your offensive handle is "Stevie is the man!" which you flaunt after every post. I've never seen any sign that you tried to understand anything I've written-- you exist in a bubble of ego where no one else's opinion matters. You don't notice that everyone else who's entered this debate agrees with me, not with you. You've obviously never bothered to read the article web application. You make absurd egomaniacal judgments about my background without bothering to research them or to acknowledge your errors when I point them out. You reflexively revert to your version without paying any attention to others' views. So what good are you? -- robotwisdom 02:18, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The statement "a weblog is a web application" is clearly not a "fact", because it is rather obviously disputed. It is at most an opinion or a (seemingly minority) perspective. Tverbeek 12:18, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Man, some people don't like to admit they're wrong, do they? robotwisdom is right; let it go. Uttaddmb 01:37, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Stevie: weblogs are not a web application, Blogger is a web application, WordPress is a web application, but blogs are not. You say wikis and discussion boards are web apps which is also wrong. MediaWiki or PHPwiki are web apps, but the resulting published content isn't.
In the "Creating and publishing weblogs" section, there is a sentence:
How can a "web-based publication" have a programmatic feature? Interesting. :) — Stevie is the man! Talk | Work 15:34, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
Are people still looking for input, or can I remove the listing? Dan100 ( Talk) 20:11, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. Dan100 ( Talk) 14:10, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
This new section reads like a proposal for how blogs could be used, or maybe an analysis of something that a few people are doing, rather than a description of a common, existing type of blog. (I also wonder if the external link in the middle is self-promo.) Any disagreement? Tverbeek 22:24, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Proposed merge because the term is better covered as a section of weblog. -- Christopherlin 02:32, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
I second the merge, as the wider readership of weblog will allow greater adherence to NPOV for the multi-blog article. See Talk:Multi-blog. -- DonIncognito
Merge. No sense having it split that I can see.
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Baylink 17:03, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Merging would make the entry simpler to read, rather than having to go onto another page which, essentially, compliments or partially duplicates the first. -- Nightstogether 08:45, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
Seem reasonable. The only problem I see is that this article is already really long (45k) -- Sketchee 15:59, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
I hate to feel like I'm being possessive, just because I was the one who started going nuts on this minor subcategory, but did anyone catch when and why ACSblog was added as an influential blog? Further, is there support for its inclusion in this list? Technorati rankings and similar ratings of the "most popular" law blogs always include the others, including Volokh, Howard's How Appealing, etc. Is this non-POV, just site-plugging by an ACS member or fan? ACS is the American Constitution Society, a self-described progressive alternative to the Federalist Society, q.v., which Supreme Court nominee John Roberts was not a member of. ACSblog.org is also, as far as I can tell, currently down. :) -- Eh Nonymous 20:05, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Besides blogs and wikis what other formats, templates are there?... Or what other formats, templates are new?... Or what other formats, templates are being developed that might even replace blogs, wikis?... dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu 07:02, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
The subsection on medical blogs mentions blogs "that deals with actual patient cases." Can we have a link (in the article or here) or explanation or something? Bondegezou 16:13, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
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Blogorrhea -A portmanteau of " blog" and " logorrhea", meaning excessive and/or incoherent talkativeness in a weblog.
I always thought that this was a portmanteau of "blog" and "diarrhea" (also spelt as "diahorrhea")... Meaning pretty obvious... Even if that's not the origin, I think it's a commonly assumed definition.
A common mistake, maybe. rodii 15:25, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Could we perhaps remove all external links to examples of blogs from this article? The few that are notable and worth linking have articles we can link, and the others are just non-notable blogs people wanted to promote and added in. What's more, we shouldn't be putting external links outside the external links section except for references, which these aren't. -- fvw * 21:49, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
The intro to this article is rather long, and pushes the table of contents down the page to the point where it is not immediately useful. Perhaps this should be reorganized? Thesquire 06:25, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
There are a large number of categories of blogs, with most categories having very little text. If there is no objection, I plan on consolidating a number of the categories to create tighter and easier to read article. Thesquire 06:33, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
According to the article: "Ham radio also had logs called "glogs" that were personal diaries made using wearable computers in the early 1980s."
Wearable computers in the 80's? "Glogs"? Via ham radio? Is any of this true?? Korny O'Near 18:32, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
I posted the cleanup notice because this article is a mess and I don't have enough time to clean up all of it myself. If you want to help, you do some of the tasks mentioned above, or help out in any way possible, really. For example, the History section is much too long and merits its own article - if someone willing to massively edit that huge section were to split it off, that'd go a long way towards making this article shorter and more readable. Most text past the Formatting section needs to be substantially re-written, if not removed as dross, so feel free to do that as well. Thesquire 17:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
I was just wondering if anyone knows the word X in this sentence: "X is to blogging as reading is to writing"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.216.186.197 ( talk) 09:14, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Isn't stretching to distinguish the concept of a blog or blogging from something like "traditional websites" or "usenet forums" an admission of the inherent reality that in fact blogs are not distinguishable from these activities or concepts at all? It seems clear to me now that you can't compare blogging to web publishing because in fact what has happened is that web publishing has become blogging. We struggle to compare between this and that precisely because we cannot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.247.195.136 ( talk) 00:43, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
This is an interesting point. There certainly are similarities between all the forms of electronic communications, which are not limited by the inherent motives of political discussion driven by commercial "news" vendors. What is most interesting of all in this new media is the lack of constraint on volition that the civil society of yesterday suffers. Bloggers, and others, in this media say what is on their minds, which offers a better view of reality than political pundits spinning stories for politicians.
[[User:Vigdor Schreibman] 23 December 2005
The statement "while The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other establishment media outlets formed a mass media cheering section for the revolution in telecommunications, Schreibman's News Columns and Special Reports conveyed a radically different story: of "telco feudalism" enacted by that revolution, in a legislative process that was rife with corrupt polticial influence peddling, by Congressional leaders such as Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS), and by House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA)." Seems to be partisian even with citation in place. Just becaule Dole and Gingrich may have done it, and from that paragraph it is hard to understand what is being claimed, it doesn't mean that people on both sides of the isle aren't guilty of simular things. Dark Nexus 16:52, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
"Netrality" is not the point in enlightened journalism or blogging. The whole idea of political discussion is to participate in shaping our community or civilization in some profound way toward betterment. If "Dark Nexus" can think of other examples of political corruption he should add them, rather than exercising the despicable practice of unilateral censorship, which failed the test of legitimacy in the Dark Ages
Who is Vigdor Schreibman? I removed several paragraphs about him (including an inappropriate section header). There were many early Internet journalists. If he started in 1993, he certainly wasn't the first person posting news to the Internet. I've never heard him referenced as the first blogger, actually I've never heard of him at all. This strikes me as vanity. Rhobite 20:00, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
If you do not know who Vigdor Schreibman is you might enjoy browsing his website at URL: http://sunsite.utk.edu/FINS 141.156.141.205 06:54, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Who the hell keeps adding that tripe in. I'm AFDing Vigdor Schreibman article right now. -- Timecop 00:43, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
AfDing the Vigdor Schreibman article may be right, but it's totally unproductive as a response to what's happening in this article. I propose that the Vigdor material, edited down, be included as yet another bullet point in the "Precursors" section (without the claim of being the first blog, since this begs the question of the definition of "blog"), and if the edited material is deemed notable on its own, another article be created specifically for it at Federal Information News Syndicate. Comments? Also, whoever keeps blanking or reverting the blanking or that section, knock it off and participate in the discussion here. rodii 20:28, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
This is not a POV question, but is there nothing criticizing blogs out there, not any negative voices? It seems everyone has good things to say, but does the medium have any inherent flaws? bodhidharma 01:27, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Most or all efforts to insert content on Vigdor Schreibman appear to be by Vigdor Schreibman. OmniCapital is part of Schreibman's OmniCapital.org. Whois shows 141.156.91.165 and 141.156.138.45 are registered to Verizon in Virginia. Schreibman appears to live in the D.C. area. Some of the edits are signed by Schreibman. The person keeps reverting to the same version, even though that removes work done by others. Schreibman needs his own article, but he does not deserve inclusion in the Blog article. If Schreibman is the persistent editor here, then perhaps his shunning by colleagues in the Press Gallery was merely due to his personal style. Someone who represents himself through a self portrait in the style of van Gogh is making a bold statement: "There is no such thing as bad press." User:Anthony717. 27 December 2005.
To actually determine the consensus on the issue, I propose a straw poll. This is the text involved:
Vigdor Schreibman and Internet news
The Federal Information News Syndicate (FINS), Vigdor Schreibman] Editor & Publisher, was from its inauguration on Jan 11, 1993, an Internet-based news organ; its web-based archive -- the first "blog" -- was located, first, on Jan 9, 1994 at the University of Maryland, as FINS InfoAge Lib. Three years later this archive became, on Aug 20, 1997, Fins Global Information Age Library, at SunSITE (Sun Software, Information, and Technology Exchange) located at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where it has operated continuously during the past eight years. This archive was designed as an experimental "digital library" containing back issues of Fins News Columns and Special Reports, as well as pivotal public policy papers "communicating the emerging philosophy of the Information Age."
Vigdor Schreibman was also "the first Internet-based writer to seek accreditation from the Congressional press gallery," according to Michael Wines, writing in his "Media" column at The New York Times, Feb. 26, 1996, at D7. The threat of Internet-based news reporting alarmed the establishment press. Wines sought to disparage internet-based reporters in his story. He compared them with "throngs of Lilliputians" like the editor of FINS, who inhabit the virtual world of cyberspace while reporters of the established press were depicted as "Gullivers," "a colossus of a creature" drawing upon the imagry of the story of " Man-Mountain, told by the great eighteenth-century satirist Jonathan Swift in his book Gulliver's Travels.
However, the fiercely independent, Internet-based news reporting set in motion by Vigdor Schreibman quickly established a new mode of reporting that did not conform to the elitest imagry Mr. Wines sought to convey. Nor were these internet-based reporters -- the first bloggers -- likely to become merely acquiescent tools of the Big Money controlled Congress and its compliant news media.
While The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other establishment media outlets formed a mass media cheering section for the revolution in telecommunications, Schreibman's News Columns and Special Reports conveyed a radically different story: of "telco feudalism" enacted by that revolution, in a legislative process that was rife with corrupt polticial influence peddling, by Congressional leaders such as Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS), and by House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA).
Those stories were to pave the way for a new class of media politics with an "unforgiving toughness and a mastery of new means of communications" that within a decade exploded into a serious challenge between " The Beltway versus The Blogosphere, as reported by Howard Fineman in Newsweek-MSNBC, September 14, 2005. In the early days of the 21st-century the politics of Internet Bloggers has become a powerful new instrument of Countervailing Power moving toward an overthrow of the governing class.
The next crucial generation of bloggers will be compelled to democratize communications with the facilitation of technology that can manage A Technique of Democracy which is needed to "form a more perfect Union" as the First Americans envisioned in the Constitution of the United States. In the absence of a genuine Union the governing system will be guided by the coercive phenomenon of "Groupthink" responsive to raw power alone,
which is what has been occuring for some time.
Votes shall be Keep or Remove, with arguments supporting the vote following. -- Thesquire ( talk - contribs) 23:36, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Upon further thought, I think it wise to also have a Modify category, with such a vote being followed by either a brief synopsis of the proposed modification, or a wikilink to a user subpage of the proposed modified text. -- Thesquire ( talk - contribs) 23:15, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
(I've never been to a discussion on a Wikipedia article before, so I hope I don't do anything wrong. Please let me know if I do) I have been under the impression that a blog, has to have some kind of feed (RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0, Atom 0.3, 1.0, etc.) for its posts in order to be a blog, and not just any website with information posted in reverse chronological order. In the same way that a podcast has be be included in some kind of feed that lets you subscribe to it in order for it to be a podcast and not just an mp3 file with people talking (or music for that matter). But nowhere in the article about blogs are feeds even mentioned, although it is beyond doubt that feeds are an important part of blogs. But are they as important as I've thought (that is, you have to include a feed to call your website a blog), or am I mistaken? The above unsigned comment was by User:Forteller at 21:06, 30 December 2005 -- Thesquire ( talk - contribs) 05:39, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
a moblog is just another blog genre; I propose merging. - Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/ [C] RfA! 10:08, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Recent section additions of "moblog" and "cultural blog" have started to show a pattern. When is a topical area a whole type? It could be worrying if we are just making this stuff up. Do bloggers in the music industry consider themselves "cultural bloggers"? It is okay to accept convention, but here convention is sort-of being made out of whole cloth. And who will follow it? It would be great for this article to be the origin of new terms, although that might not be proper. It would be sad if a student referenced the article, only to be admonished by his or her teacher for using a term that does not exist. Anthony717 23:16, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
What about trendy blog elements such as HNT which has mass participation across different types of blogs? They exist in different blogs, and are therefore elements, rather than types of blogs, for they do not themselves characterise the blog. At what point do fads become rituals? Presses above question about "new terms." Since it is widely participated in (perhaps a form of blog "slang"?), can something like it be considered to have evolved from blogs? Is it the "fennel salad" of the noble blog, or the "buffalo wing night", and should both be considered blog cuisine? —the preceding unsigned comment is by Coloneldoctor ( talk • contribs) 00:39, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
redirects here but the word doesn't appear in the text. (Or at least, Ctrl+F doesn't find it.) Could anybody who knows about multiblogs please add a few words about them to the article? Thanks -- 147.122.2.211 16:48, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Since I've had to revert this twice, I'm going to talk about it. This is not a sentence:
If you eliminate the clause "allowing full user manipulation of the situation to their specifications", you are left with "Therefore". "Therefore", by itself, is not a sentence.
The previous sentence is fine. Daniel Quinlan 02:03, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Unless anyone objects, I'm going to create another archive page for this talk page in a few days. -- Thesquire ( talk - contribs) 21:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
This book, available online under a CC license, could probably be used as a reference somewhere. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.113.100.70 ( talk • contribs) 22:20, 28 January 2006 (UTC)