Thursday, July 17, 2003
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Internationaler Kongress über Weblogs in Wien
23. und 24. Mai im Techgate
(german)
Internationaler Kongress über Weblogs in Wien
23. und 24. Mai im Techgate
(german)
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Deep Thinking about Weblogs
by Andrew Grumet
The pet rock of the 00's
Weblogs are everywhere. No longer the hideout of programmer nerds, weblog authors count among their ranks a Stanford law professor, a cast member of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a woman who works in the adult film industry, a popular humor columnist (who no doubt would be thrilled to appear in a list next to "a woman who works in the adult film industry").
In the words of weblog conceiver and chief evangelizer, Dave Winer, "A Weblog allows you to easily publish a wide variety of content to the Web. You can publish written essays, annotated links, documents (Word, PDF, and PowerPoint files), graphics, and multimedia." To many this will sound a lot like a Geocities home page. Nothing new here: Geocities has been making it easy to publish to the Web for almost as long as there has been a Web. Scan a few weblogs, either those listed above or others that you may know about, and it should become clear that a weblog is exactly what it sounds like: a log that is published to the Web. The log entries are typically short, informal, and posted daily.
We can think of a weblog as a special kind of home page that has a time element. Or, even better, as a public, online diary. So why all the excitement? Everybody seems to have one and yet a weblog feels more like a pet rock than a revolution. We are particularly reminded of the excitement that accompanied the explosion of home pages in the early days of the Web. We suspect that, like home pages, the appearance of so many weblogs isn't the interesting part. The interesting part is, rather, the pervasive use of a set of technologies. Let's leave that thread for now and pick it up a little later on.
Andrew Grumet
Deep Thinking about Weblogs
by Andrew Grumet
The pet rock of the 00's
Weblogs are everywhere. No longer the hideout of programmer nerds, weblog authors count among their ranks a Stanford law professor, a cast member of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a woman who works in the adult film industry, a popular humor columnist (who no doubt would be thrilled to appear in a list next to "a woman who works in the adult film industry").
In the words of weblog conceiver and chief evangelizer, Dave Winer, "A Weblog allows you to easily publish a wide variety of content to the Web. You can publish written essays, annotated links, documents (Word, PDF, and PowerPoint files), graphics, and multimedia." To many this will sound a lot like a Geocities home page. Nothing new here: Geocities has been making it easy to publish to the Web for almost as long as there has been a Web. Scan a few weblogs, either those listed above or others that you may know about, and it should become clear that a weblog is exactly what it sounds like: a log that is published to the Web. The log entries are typically short, informal, and posted daily.
We can think of a weblog as a special kind of home page that has a time element. Or, even better, as a public, online diary. So why all the excitement? Everybody seems to have one and yet a weblog feels more like a pet rock than a revolution. We are particularly reminded of the excitement that accompanied the explosion of home pages in the early days of the Web. We suspect that, like home pages, the appearance of so many weblogs isn't the interesting part. The interesting part is, rather, the pervasive use of a set of technologies. Let's leave that thread for now and pick it up a little later on.
Andrew Grumet
Frankfurter Rundschau
Frankfurt am Main, 17.07.03
Pingpong mit Pingback
Lass mich Deine Suchmaschine sein: Webseiten finden neue Wege der Vernetzung
(german)
Frankfurt am Main, 17.07.03
Pingpong mit Pingback
Lass mich Deine Suchmaschine sein: Webseiten finden neue Wege der Vernetzung
(german)
