The Outdated Label of Weblog
I'd like to unofficially declare the label of weblog dead. Let's replace it with something more descriptive and with less of a "geek" tinge...
Online Author
Most of the articles I'm reading by online authors are not diaries of their daily life. They are not a log of everything they are doing--far from it. Who would want to know that kind of detail ("Now I'm headed to the bathroom...") or, to be more accurate, why would anyone care? I am interest in ongoing stories with open endings whose content falls with my current sphere of interest.
Examples:
Dave Winer: I read Dave's scripting.com to hear of his crusade's progress in the halls of Harvard University. His discussions, like all of us, contain emotion and depth and at other times, they lack emotion and depth and real content of interest. Make a tape recording of your own conversations and discussions with your peers and decide how you measure up.
Jon Udell: Jon's a good barometer of the technology industry from the inside of a traditional publication. I used to read ZDNet's Anchor Desk and editorial columns of trade magazine and found that their views were too sanitized and I had no perspective by which to judge their content. I can read Jon and compare current posts to recent posts to archive posts, deciding for myself if he's strayed from editorial to opinion or back.
Comments?
srk at mac dot com
10:24:13 AM 
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