Blogging it old skool style

[greatbear]

If you are on LJ, you most likely think of yourself as a 'blogger'. It seems like the art of the blog has been around forever. But it's only been in existence for 10 years, which, admittedly in internet years is an eternity. And the concept of the blog has changed and expanded in those years.

The "original" blogger, Jorn Barger, coined the term 'weblog' to describe his log of daily travels through the web. These days, del.icio.us is more an example of that style of 'weblog' than the journals kept by those who might be reading this post. Barger has compiled a list of ten hints and tips for bloggers new to the game. In this case, it would be a means to keep a weblog as he did starting in those early years.

Perusing the article, I could not help but think how well Barger would fit in with a sizable portion of my friends list:

Comments

[cpj.livejournal.com]

Looks like he has a second job as the Old Sea Captain.

Probably straight, for all I know.

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

1. A true weblog is a log of all the URLs you want to save or share. (So del.icio.us is actually better for blogging than blogger.com.)

and

2. You can certainly include links to your original thoughts, posted elsewhere … but if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility.

B.S.!!!

Definitely an old style blogger, but blogs that just contain links with little of the views of the people actually don't add much to the web and are boring, very late 90s...only going this site is cool, ooh here's this video etc. is just old.

My favorite photo of him.

[whiskerfish.livejournal.com]

I find him intriguing and a little bit scary.

[djmadadam.livejournal.com]

[jacked01.livejournal.com]

Ummmm Huummmm yummy unibomber goodness!!

[djmadadam.livejournal.com]

He's frightening. And rather uninformative.

See? There. I did it correctly. I commented on an article. (Give me a break, LOL!)