>On 5/21/07, Xiaofan Chen  wrote:
> > It seems to me that blogging is quite popular now. I am somewhat too
> > behind the times. Anyway, I just started a blog at blogspot.
> > Just wondering how many people in this list are blogging.

On  5/21/07, Josh wrote:
>I have a blog, but it's kinda private (as in I dont advertise it)
>mostly use it as a journal to keep in touch with family/friends.

I view the concept as a combination of diary, opinion-giving, and 
write-only environment.  By that last, I mean no one will ever read what I 
write, except in the extraordinary circumstance that one's   blog becomes 
one of the handful of well-known or recommended sites.  The other, more 
likely possibility is that one randomly takes hits from a search engine 
(which is how I end up randomly experiencing others' blogs).

When I started mine, I took the fragment they threw away when they broke 
"weblog" in half, and created the "We".  This is for 
articles/stories/observations,  which can stand by themselves.   As opposed 
to "blog" which usually goes something like "Today I ran over a duck 
because it was sitting in my parking spot". [1] [2]

Then, of course, one day there /was/ a duck in my parking spot, so I wanted 
to just write down stuff that happened and therefore had to create a "blog" 
section anyway.  I suppose that makes it complete.

Anyway I don't want the search engines to find out about it, because of the 
thing James mentioned.  There are a hundred thousand machines just waiting 
to post to it.  There is a recovery method but I'm putting off learning how 
it works.   Heh.

Barry

[1] No ducks were harmed...there are no ducks in California anyway.
[2] Most bloggers' entries usually go like this: "Well, I haven't made any 
entries lately but I'll try to update this more often".  This is, of 
course, the modern replacement for the "Under Construction" graphic of the 
'90s.



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