Last evening's thunder moon:
1/250 sec., 7" f/4.9 Schwar dobsonian telescope, 3am mst.
I could not have said it better. [from SpaceTramp]
Don Park says weblogs will be the same as websites. Yeah. Haven't they always been. A website is a group of one or more scrollable windows of graphics, text and other media. Blogs are a subset of websites that have other criteria that are specific to weblogs, such as permalinks, archives and blogrolls. The main identifier that a website is a blog is it's changing nature. You can add stuff to it any time you want.
When I first found Ed Lu's blog, I wondered if it was a blog or a site. As a website, it's boring - you'd expect NASA to post writings of an astronaut. But as a blog - well, everybody's pointing to it in the blogosphere - so I call it a blog even though it lacks a lot of blog specific features. So then, 'blogging' is a semantic differentiation, any website can also be a weblog... if they change it from time to time and keep the old stuff.
But what does it mean to keep the old stuff?
From 1995 until 1999 I wrote the Mr. Science website which included a news section with changing items. Although I kept no archive pages, I did keep all the links in a primative blogroll. About 30% of those web links are still active.
Then the question is, not if blogging will survive with that particular designation, but will links to your content survive? [link from Scripting]
