So what is a blog, and am I getting old by not knowing![]()
I wouldn't read one. Can't imagine anything more boring.
How have you never read a blog?!? You must have read things like engadget, ICHC? it's difficult to do anything on the net without seeing a blog or a website that is blog-style.
Now Bloggers think they are "citizen journalists", which just means that they don't have to worry about bias, authenticity or anything a self respecting journalist has to deal with.
I wouldn't read one. Can't imagine anything more boring.
loosely speaking, a blog is way for people who cant design websites to have a website
Yeah, like Google, Eric Lippert, and many others . They couldn't design a website to save their lives.
You seem to be putting a pretty negative spin on the idea of airing one's opinions. Should only real journalists be allowed to do this?
i was talking technically
previously to write a website, you had to have some technological skill. both to generate the content and to get it into the web in the first place. You had to FTP the files up, then continuously manage it by FTPing up your webpages as they updated.
Sure you could write a website using a WYSIWYG editor, but even then using dreamwever would put of all but the most adventerous.
blogs changed all that, usually all the hardwork is done for you. You just have to worry about raw content, and the styling.
Ahh yes another question what is a RSS feed seem it on my mobile is that used for blogging ?
A blog isn't necessarily an out-of-the-box package. Pre-written blogging software exists for people to use of course, but then this is true of most types of dynamic websites (shops, CMSs, galleries, forums, etc.). Also, many of the high-profile blogs out there use either their own blogging software or highly customised pre-written ones.
No, in my opinion a much clearer line of distinction needs to be drawn.
RSS feeds have also blurred the line between the original copy writer and the little two bit weekend warrior who hasn't had any kind of training in the field.
Remember the fiasco of Gizmodo at the 2008 CES show? remember how highly they placed themselves on the pedestal of "new journalism" and spouting cheap 1984 references?
They tried to hide behind the citizen journalist utopian ideals when they were just a bunch of pranksters who tried to get their dad "Gizmodo" to defend them when they were hung drawn and quartered for it.
Im not implying that blog is a mutually exclusive term for the weekend warrior so to speak, just trying to help the OP understand were the concept came from.