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Saturday, October 26, 2002 |
Many Weblogs Have Transitioned to Pulpits?
Dave Winer, in his History of Weblogs says:
Weblogs are often-updated sites that point to articles elsewhere on the web, often with comments, and to on-site articles. A weblog is kind of a continual tour, with a human guide who you get to know.
That's certainly how Weblogs started out and got their name (they were logs of Web tours and visits and recommendations). But it's clear that many Weblogs have become something quite different. Mine, e.g., is far more often about my take on a topic or my narration of a sporting event in real time than it is a sort of set of interesting pointers with commentary.
As I look around at the Weblogs I follow, I think most of them have evolved from the tour guide model to a more editorial model. (Probably most of them never were tour guides.
I see blogs becoming, as I said when I first encountered Radio, more and more like the Web's typewriter. But now it's combined with a directly connected printing press.
Woohoo!
11:14:10 AM 
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Why So Much Repetitive Stuff in Wired News Feeds?
Wired News has some of the stuff I really like to read and often link to and comment on. But I'm about to unsubscribe to their news feed because of repetition.
Question: is this kind of repetition something Wired could easily fix or is it sort of inherent in the system? I see other feeds provide repetitive stuff from time to time as well, but overnight, the Wired feeds at 10 p.m., 1, 4, 8, and 10 a.m. were identical in every respect. Interestingly enough, the 9 a.m. feed was not.
Is something unexpected or weird going on here or is this expected behavior?
10:54:48 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Dan Shafer.
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