I voted for Poagao’s blog.
I enjoy reading it. It’s as simple as that.
So did I. The bastard’s eating pizza right outside the door. I can almost TASTE it!
I’m up to Nov. 17 and I’ve read nearly all of your Australian railway story. can I get out now? I really need to use the bathroom and there’s roaches in here.[/quote]
Nov. 17? Ha! Fat lot o’ good that’ll do ya. Tell you what, you get to December plus a couple of fake News pages, and I’ll slip some pizza crumbs in there fer you an’ the roaches.
I voted often for the Tokyo Damage Report. If the gangster bar, flame-throwing, blood-spurting gothic catfights don’t get you, there’s always godzilla porn.
God knows.
Not necessary, but it is, mostly.
Read my tranlation practice webblog:
kimichen.blogs.com/translation2003/
It’s like homework pages.
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Do you have an audience in mind or do you just do it for the hell of it? [/quote]
It depends. I have a lot of webblogs. I can design different webblogs for different purposes.
First, because I paid for my webblogs, I can lock it and anyone else won’t read it.
Second, don’t be too self-conscious. People are not as interested in your diary as you thought. Besides, to write down something TOO REAL online is as difficult as to write down in your diary.
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Also, why do you thnk other people would be interested to read about your daily doings?
I’d be interested to hear your thoughts.[/quote]
For most of people, WE are more or less voyeurs. My webblog system provides statistics, so does my website. I can know how many people view them(but not who, no popping eye, don’t worry).
The more you share, the more you get!
Try it. I recommend typepad.com
It offers one blog for free.
This is perhaps off topic but thought I would share. Don’t mean to bore you.
I don’t consider weblogs as personal journals. For what its worth, weblogs comprise one of my best means of online research. Imagine finding a number of people with weblogs with similar interests as yourself all doing research at the same time and sharing the results - its pretty darn cool. If they all have a rss feed its pretty darn fast too.
I’ve had a weblog of some sort off and on for the past 4 years or so - the first one was a “journal” of sorts I guess and was pretty popular. My current one is absolutely boring to most and few people read it. But I am totally enthused with what they can and have done for me. A colleague and I are evangelising their use throughout our company and are meeting with some success - at least considering that we work where the latest hip concept is “mail push”.
I get often asked “what is a weblog?” so I comprised a list of what other people have said (no one believes an insiders opinion) :
“If we look beneath the content of weblogs, we can observe the common ground all bloggers share – the format. The weblog format provides a framework for our universal blog experiences, enabling the social interactions we associate with blogging…These tools spit out our varied content in the same format – archives, permalinks, time stamps, and date headers.” (Meg Hourihan)
Dave Winer defines weblogs as being: personal, on the web, published, and part of communities.
Halley Suitt details multiple characteristics, including: last place on earth to tell the truth, watching brains at work, a love letter, a diary, an open head - for the reader’s convenience.
“But what bloggers do is completely new - and cannot be replicated on any other medium. It’s somewhere in between writing a column and talk radio. It’s genuinely new. And it harnesses the web’s real genius - its ability to empower anyone to do what only a few in the past could genuinely pull off. In that sense, blogging is the first journalistic model that actually harnesses rather than merely exploits the true democratic nature of the web. It’s a new medium finally finding a unique voice.” (Andrew Sullivan)
"The best description I
I was intrigued to discover that slashdot.org (tech-related news discussion) started out as a blog before he (they?) sold it.