A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.I have recently ran across a few "Teaching Blogs" where comments are either moderated-to-the-max or not allowed. I wonder why these people write online and why they call their sites "blogs". Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.
The term "blog" is derived from "Web log." "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Comment-less Blogs
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Umm, yes I do have a thought but should I really say it? As far as comment moderation - I completely understand the need for that since some people get very undesirable comments that they don't want to subject their readers too.
ReplyDeleteAs for the no comment thing....it seems that the ones I have run across that don't want comments have a bit of an attitude - if you know what I mean. That's just a feeling I get from some...kind of like they are saying "what I have to say matters, but I'm really not interested in what you have to say".
Now I feel bad for saying that!
About Barbara's comment ...
ReplyDelete"Now I feel bad for saying that!"
... maybe I should have turned comments off for this post ... or at least moderated them :)
My (oh-so-limited) understanding is that weblogs were originally created for people to journal what they are doing, thinking, or whatever. There was no commenting at all when they first came out. It was strictly for logging things on the web.
ReplyDeleteI believe it progressed into what it is now something like this:
Someone posts an entry...
Someone reads the entry and wants to discuss it with the author...
That someone emails the author with the thoughts...
The author appends that someone's thoughts to the end of the entry...
After time, this got tedious and time consuming because ten people were involved in a conversation.
Someone decides that they could use modern technology to enable someone to add what they want to say to the entry in a separate area.
And voila!!! We have commenting on weblogs.
(And yeah...I could be wrong.)
Ok DK but I still wonder why these people write online and why they call their sites "blogs".
ReplyDeleteIt's because the original blogs had no commenting. So techinically, they are using the right term. But the understanding of what that term means today is different. Perhaps WE are the ones who should change what term we use. How do you feel about:
ReplyDelete"Discussion Thread" (D-Thread)
or even better
"Conversation Log" (Clog)
Clog - I love it DK!
ReplyDeleteBut I don't agree that moderated and commentless blogs are ones that existed before commenting was available.
I think that some people are a bit uncomfortable with dialog ... might speak more to their insecurities than anything ... could be wrong though :(
"But I don't agree that moderated and commentless blogs are ones that existed before commenting was available."
ReplyDeleteNor did I intend to imply that. Sorry for the confusion.
What I meant was that those who choose not to enable commenting are more accurate in calling thier sites "blogs" (based on the term's history) than those of us enable commenting.
And "clog" is my choice as well. Let's see if we can't get it started, eh?