Jonmac asked:
> Sorry to bomb the lists, but how many listers are there who
> regularly or periodically contribute to their own Blog?
Firstly, I have no idea how many there are who do such a thing.
Secondly and more to the point-ly, I've never understood the concept.
- Some newspaper columnists maintain blogs, but I can't help wondering: How is
that different from writing a daily column?
- Some "ordinary people" (not that anyone is truly ordinary) maintain blogs.
But the world is so full of chatter anyway that it is a tough task to decide
which voices to hear and which to tune out (unashamedly mixing a few mataphors).
- And are not some blogs are open to public or restricted-public contribution
from people other than their maintainers? How is this different from a mere
public conversation or traditional bulletin board?
- Were I to indulge in blogging, wouldn't it be presumptious to assume anyone
else really wants to invest the time reading what are essentially my daily
entires public diary? Perhaps if the bloggings were focusesd on a subject such
as an email list is, people might be interested.
Please explain it, someone of you more in tune with today's
communication-overloaded culture. All I can think of is how the Internet has
disproven the old saw about enough monkeys with typewriters eventually typing
the works of Shakespeare. (And pleasse do not quote Wikipedia as your
authority.)
--
Jim Muller, feeling cantankerous
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