Members the stranger Posted October 20, 2008 Members Share Posted October 20, 2008 :soapbox: I should do like Bluestrat and just go play my guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted October 20, 2008 Members Share Posted October 20, 2008 I wouldn't leave that info up too long or we may find our posts interspersed with long adverts for the finest in iPhone and Adidas knockoffs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted October 20, 2008 Members Share Posted October 20, 2008 ...and started the whole world crying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted October 20, 2008 Members Share Posted October 20, 2008 I think we need some folks to hold up the on-point side of things. Stranger and me probably can probably handle the tangential, peripheral, and wildy off-topic side of things until a few more modern ramblers come on board... We've got the hot air for the balloon... now we need the ballast. ...and started the whole world crying? Geez... I'm not on my game... it took me 15 (pre-coffee) seconds to get that. On that note... a deconstructionalist, an empricist, and a pragmatist walk into a 12 step meeting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bbach Posted October 20, 2008 Members Share Posted October 20, 2008 What is a blog and what is the purpose of having a blog? Serious questions. I really don't know. I don't spend an awful lot of time on the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted October 20, 2008 Members Share Posted October 20, 2008 Mom -- is that you? Actually, my mom tries to get on the net at least once or twice a day (the key was setting up her email on Gmail and setting up a Google home page for her (that I can log into and fix for her if something goes wack) with her email, rotating images of my cat (whose adoption by me she long angled for but who she has barely seen in the real world, since my cat isn't stranger-friendly), as well as a super-cute Flash animation of a cat that meows when you mouse over it and purrs when you 'pet' its head. This is what it takes to get my mom on the net, so be it. ____________ Blog is 'short' for web log. They started in the early, early days of the WWW, when the real geeks who'd been prowling the text and link pre-WWW internet would excitedly list all the cool new sites they'd visited with their new image-ready web browsers -- often with how long it took for a tiny (and sometimes not so tiny) image to download and render on their machine. (And it could take a couple minutes for a single image...) So, sort of a diary of web experiences in the beginning. Over the years, the miracles of the web became more commonplace and blogs became both a diary of cool or interesting sites but also more general personal soap boxes. At first, they were typically just the province of online friends, but as search engines became more and more useful and web self-promoters became more engaged, blogs came to be a little more like the online equivalent of print newspaper columns, presenting various mixes of the personal and the general, much like the feature, analysis and news columns in print publications. But one thing that never really changed -- and in fact became more central in current event blogs -- was the inclusion of snippets of news articles and links back to the sources. At first, some old line publications experimenting with this (to them) new web thing were huffy -- or worse -- when quoted (even when their IP lawyers pointed out precedent and practice regarding so-called fair use doctrine which was often seen to allow brief quotation for the purpose of comment and discussion). But print publications had been engaging in similar practice. And, of course, eventually some of these dinosaur publications not only realized that such snips and links were actually increasing readership of their online content -- but that, like it or not, a time was coming when the WWW would dominate current events reporting and perhaps periodical publishing itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bbach Posted October 20, 2008 Members Share Posted October 20, 2008 So basically we want a blog to repeat what we do on this forum, except without moderation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted October 20, 2008 Members Share Posted October 20, 2008 What do you want me to do? All I'm good for is writing cheesy pop songs and reading books about demons and wizards Oh and I'm computer-illiterate - don't forget that! Good afternoon, by the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted October 20, 2008 Members Share Posted October 20, 2008 So basically we want a blog to repeat what we do on this forum, except without moderation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members girevik Posted October 20, 2008 Members Share Posted October 20, 2008 I used my blog to keep my friends updated in one place, so I don't have to repeat the same story (eg. trip to Europe) so many times. I find Facebook more efficient for that purpose. I can also keep updated on what's up with them too - with less effort on everyone's part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted October 21, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 21, 2008 It seems I'm alone again. That's cool, too. Sorry, if I bothered you guys with this nonsense. I still think it's a good idea. Check it out, people! http://caseoftheblogs.blogspot.com/ Do note, it appears to be a solo gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff da Weasel Posted October 21, 2008 Members Share Posted October 21, 2008 You wanna have a blog about a forum? Isn't that like writing a novel about a book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted October 21, 2008 Members Share Posted October 21, 2008 3 words: Jorge Luise Borges Borges would write a 3 page short story about a novella about an epic. I think, sometimes, maybe he liked ideas and thinking about writing more than he like writing. And he spent a lot of time as an academic, for sure. Stranger We're all alone. I shouldn't have to tell that to a guy whose handle is the stranger, should I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted October 21, 2008 Members Share Posted October 21, 2008 Hey Stranger- Got your invitation. I got a BLOG on my site. Just me blabbering about whatever. At first I thought I was writing a novel. After a while I realized its another journal... argh No harm done if you don`t read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted October 21, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 21, 2008 3 words: Jorge Luise Borges Borges would write a 3 page short story about a novella about an epic. I think, sometimes, maybe he liked ideas and thinking about writing more than he like writing. And he spent a lot of time as an academic, for sure. Stranger We're all alone. I shouldn't have to tell that to a guy whose handle is the stranger, should I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted October 21, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 21, 2008 You wanna have a blog about a forum? Isn't that like writing a novel about a book? Actually, it's like a forum with one thread. At least that's how I'm spinning it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted October 21, 2008 Members Share Posted October 21, 2008 ...and started the whole world crying? SPLRFFFFFFFFTTTTT!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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