Dwight Silverman, of the Houston Chronicle, says shame on Microsoft for calling the publishing mechanism inside the new URGE music service and Windows Media Player 11 (which otherwise is getting good reviews around blogs this morning) "blogs."
I agree with Dwight.
What made blogging better than Web sites? Five things.
1) Ease of publishing.
2) Discoverability. (Pings weblogs.com or technorati or another ping server).
3) Conversationality. (Trackbacks or as-they-happen referer logs, or now being part of Technorati and other blog search engines).
4) Linkability. (All posts should have permalinks).
5) Syndicatability. (All content should be available in RSS feeds).
If you don't have those five, you shouldn't call your stuff a blog. Especially if I can't link to it from here.
In my innoncence as a new blogger I’ve just started a similar topic about trying to define what a blog is.
I don’t think a general definition of a blog can be reduced to a simple list like this. Although the term has been around a while, it’s only just beginning to mature. It’s in an inchoate state as l.lee.lowe put it.
In other words the art and science of blogging is only now getting into its infancy, we can try and predict what it will look like when it grows up, but we can’t pin it down yet.
Please I was “blogging” before the word even existed. You can’t really define it with requirements. That’s like Microsoft saying an ultra-mobile PC isn’t a “UMPC” unless it does x, y, and z.
Please I was “blogging” before the word even existed. You can’t really define it with requirements. That’s like Microsoft saying an ultra-mobile PC isn’t a “UMPC” unless it does x, y, and z.
What’s the Difference Between a Blog and a Web Site?…
Saturday again, so I’m allowed to post a little off the effective winery Web site topic. I’d like to point you to Robert Microsoft Blogger Scoble’s list of what separates blogs from a vanilla Web sites: Ease of publishing (just…
Then blogger is not a hosting service for blogs.
Then blogger is not a hosting service for blogs.
i understand what you mean, but there are sites that are generally considered blogs because they are updated frequently, have content displayed in reverse chronological order, but have no RSS, no permalinks, and no “leave a comment” spaces. Karen Cheng’s blog for example.
i understand what you mean, but there are sites that are generally considered blogs because they are updated frequently, have content displayed in reverse chronological order, but have no RSS, no permalinks, and no “leave a comment” spaces. Karen Cheng’s blog for example.
[...] Nuevas Definiciones de Blog. Robert Scoble, un blogger contratado por Micro$oft para hablar (bien y mal) de la compañía y cuenta que Micro$oft debe aprender qué es un blog y hacer HTML “limpios”. [...]
[...] Great “Turing test“ for if what you have is a blog, by Scoble via LexBlog via Blog de Octavio Isaac Rojas Orduña 1. Ease of publishing. 2. Discoverability. (Pings weblogs.com or technorati or another ping server). 3. Conversationality. (Trackbacks or as-they-happen referer logs, or now being part of Technorati and other blog search engines). 4. Linkability. (All posts should have permalinks). 5. Syndicatability. (All content should be available in RSS feeds). [...]
[...] It’s a great idea, though perhaps a slight misunderstanding of the word “blog” — which actually means an online diary that allows readers to post comments. A bit like my own website, for example. Purists such as Robert Scoble would add the requirement for RSS feeds, trackbacks and pinging blog search engines such as Technorati, though in practice, not all blogs do this. Then again, I guess we could stretch the definition a bit just for Faith Camp. There aren’t likely to be that many people going online on the East of England Showground during the week, after all. [...]
I saw that you have a page that discusses patent-related resources at http://scobleizer.com/2006/05/17/a-blog-is-not-a-blog-unless/. I wanted to suggest adding http://www.freepatentsonline.com to the page. This web site has free PDF downloading (instead of having to page through TIFFs like at the US PTO). It is by far the best free patent searching site.
I saw that you have a page that discusses patent-related resources at http://scobleizer.com/2006/05/17/a-blog-is-not-a-blog-unless/. I wanted to suggest adding http://www.freepatentsonline.com to the page. This web site has free PDF downloading (instead of having to page through TIFFs like at the US PTO). It is by far the best free patent searching site.
[...] I am not a blog even though I appear to meet Scoble's main criteria. I prefer to think of myself as an online journal, a publication, a Web log, a weblog, a Photoblog or even an online diary. OK. OK. I admit it. He may have had a point about my split personality. [...]
[...] Ms. West quoted Robert Scoble’s five reasons why blogging is better than a web site. These are: 1. Often easier to build – free software is easy to use. 2. Discoverability – blogs are well indexed with good metadata. Google has a blog search as does Technorati. 3. Conversationality – it lets people talk to each other and you get to know the authors. 4. Linkability – blogs contain lots of links to other blogs or sites. 5. Syndicatability – nearly all blogging software will generate RSS feeds automatically. [...]
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[...] perceive the inclusion of personal opinions as what makes a blog. I’ve always subscribed to Scoble’s criteria for a blog: publishability, discoverability, conversationality, linkability, and syndicatability. I guess [...]
[...] Michael Scobleizer (2006) states that a ‘real’ blog would possess the following features: [...]
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