Comments on: 70 Million Definitions of “Blog” And Counting

By: Confident Writing

Confident Writing — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:10:05 +0000

On What It Means “To Blog”: Reader Definitions

There was such a good discussion here recently about what we mean by blogging (70 Million Definitions Of Blog And Counting) that I thought a follow up post was in order. In particular I wanted to share some of your

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:23:12 +0000

Jamie, sorry for jumping over you there.

Thanks for that wonderful definition of a blog – and of individual posts. One of the reasons I enjoy blogging so much is that each post contains something of value – a word, an idea, a conversation – like you say: one thread of a tapestry, one page of a book, one card in the deck.

Thanks for joining this conversation

Joanna

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:19:24 +0000

Meryl, thanks for sharing that experience. I like the idea of a blog as “conversation without barriers” very much

Joanna

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:18:22 +0000

Yvonne, it was my pleasure to spread the word about the cafe – so many great conversations start there!

Thanks for getting me thinking so hard about this one.

Like you say our definitions will keep on changing and developing as we create and experiment and find new ways to use them – maybe that’s one of the defining characteristics of blogging, the invitation to create and innovate…

Best wishes

Joanna

By: Meryl K. Evans

Meryl K. Evans — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:49:59 +0000

Helen Keller said, “Blindness cuts us off from things. Deafness cuts us off from people.”

I fall in the latter and blogging took care of that problem. It was around before Twitter and you couldn’t discover new friends by email. So blogging and reading blogs made it possible to meet people and participate in a conversation without any barriers.

There’s no deaf accent coming through either or misunderstanding (Goodness knows, I misunderstand people all the time).

By: Yvonne Russell (Grow Your Writing Business)

Yvonne Russell (Grow Your Writing Business) — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:00:52 +0000

Hi Joanna
Thanks for highlighting this lively conversation – a great roundup. I think the conversation will evolve as blogging evolves, and as each of us experiments with different purposes for and ways of using blogs.

Already there’s a new word to add the blogging mix – a “bliki”. A bliki is a combination of a blog and a wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliki

Thanks also for spreading the word about the Writers Cafe, Joanna.

By: Jamie Grove - How Not To Write

Jamie Grove - How Not To Write — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:45:51 +0000

To me, a blog is like a set of index cards for the mind, while the perfect post is a single idea honed in such a way that it stands alone or slides seamlessly into the stack.

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:39:04 +0000

Hello Ulla

It’s good to meet you – and on Twitter, and Flickr!

I like the emphasis on it being easy, and something you can do yourself. That’s very liberating and empowering isn’t it?

Joanna

By: Ulla

Ulla — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:52:42 +0000

When I try to explain “blog” to other people, I say, it’s an easy way to publish on the web. You don’t have to know html, you just type in a textfield. You don’t need someone to put your content into a webside, you can do it yourself.
I also say, it’s a way to communicate with other people in an easy way. It’s a kind of journal, and people use it for many different themes.

By: Joanna Young

Joanna Young — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:44:45 +0000

Hmm, SpaceAgeSage, I like that.

“a unique connecting point for creative conversations online … where one individual begins by sharing themselves, their talents, or their product …?”

What do others think?

Joanna