What's a blog?

[Jeffrey Fisher]

typically a blog is a personal site for sharing cool links and posting 
comments/opinions. in other words, (a) i thought this thing at this link 
was cool or interesting, and (b) rants/raves about politics, movies, 
public figures, technology, whatever.

some standard/well-known blogs include:
http://www.kottke.org/
http://www.peterme.com/

but you might also check bruce sterling's blog, posted daily at 
http://www.infinitematrix.net/

there are a couple of pretty standard blogging tools, but probably the 
best known and most used is
http://www.blogger.com/ where you can also find bajillions of blogs.

sites like slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org) and 
http://www.metafilter.com/ are also blogesque, but more news oriented, 
typically, and more community-based in general. then there's some bozo 
posting at http://www.brainmortgage.com/.

jeff
wannabe geek

On Thursday, June 6, 2002, at 04:06 PM, joanna bujes wrote:


> OK. I understand it's short for "web log," but what's a web log? It 
> sounds like something a browser might maintain privately, like a log of 
> all the links you go to...
>
> ...but obviously that's not what it means because people use it more in 
> the sense of "web page."
>
> So, please, what's a blog?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joanna
>