Rick (medlir) wrote,
Rick
medlir

Bleh.

Found this article earlier: Blog This

And following his request (and ignoring his use of bleh terms), I'm doing just that.

-=-=-=-=-

Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:19:56 -0500
From: Medlir <medlir@livejournal.com>
To: letters@technologyreview.com
Subject: Blog This By Henry Jenkins

Bleh, I'm somewhat disappointed at the mentioning of blogger.com by name
with no mention of livejournal.com even though LiveJournal has 487678
users, and it's open-source code is used by numerous other sites
including:

http://www.deadjournal.com
http://www.parajournal.com
http://hive.egnu.org
http://journal.shadowriders.org
http://www.fearthedark.net

And other sites that mimic it such as...

http://www.dreamjournal.org/dj/
http://www.zx-2.net
http://www.woohu.com

There's also a rather large contingent of "web journalists" who abhor
the terms "blog", "blogger" and "blogging", and would never use them to
decribe their web journaling. Bloggers are almost by definition *only*
the people who use blogger, and not any other service or method of web
journaling such as LiveJournal, GreyMatter
(http://www.noahgrey.com/greysoft/), or even the custom and manually
updated solutions that many people use. I got the impression the
article was supposed to be about all web journalists... *shiver* at the
use of proprietary terms to describe a web culture that's much larger
than the terms used.

Rick
aka Medlir
LiveJournal User
Subscribe

  • Facebook is down...

    So what's going on over here? :D

  • Ahh, time.... you slippery thing you.

    Amazingly enough, it's been almost exactly two whole years... AGAIN... since I last posted. What is it with July? Hey, I know, let's do another big…

  • Random Rant

    People I Want to Smack #237 Anyone who, when filling out a profile on a social or personals site, puts down that they "like to have fun". Seriously?…

  • Post a new comment

    Error

    Anonymous comments are disabled in this journal

    default userpic

    Your reply will be screened

    Your IP address will be recorded 

  • 3 comments