"Didn't like" is too strong a term, but let's say that I can't agree with some of the conclusions you've drawn from your material. I don't agree that a "blog" is a new technology. There may be new softwares out there that make web publishing easier to do, but what makes something a blog is that it is a personal web page dealing with opinions or public issues that is available to an unrestricted public. If you look at the bottom of the web pages in your examples I expect you will find they have been created with a variety of softwares, many of which are not specific to making "blogs". Web pages published by institutions with a collective management should not be considered a "blog"; they are a web site. Web sites may contain blogs within them, such as Eric Alterman's column on MSNBC.com, but to call every type of web site a "blog" dilutes any meaning to the term. Forums and discussion groups which are not a subset of somebody's personal web site are also not blogs, though this message is being composed on that type of software within this blog. Including too many things under the term "blog" obscures the origins of other forms of web publishing which already exist and deserve to be understood on their own terms.
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"Didn't like" is too strong a term, but let's say that I can't agree with some of the conclusions you've drawn from your material. I don't agree that a "blog" is a new technology. There may be new softwares out there that make web publishing easier to do, but what makes something a blog is that it is a personal web page dealing with opinions or public issues that is available to an unrestricted public. If you look at the bottom of the web pages in your examples I expect you will find they have been created with a variety of softwares, many of which are not specific to making "blogs". Web pages published by institutions with a collective management should not be considered a "blog"; they are a web site. Web sites may contain blogs within them, such as Eric Alterman's column on MSNBC.com, but to call every type of web site a "blog" dilutes any meaning to the term. Forums and discussion groups which are not a subset of somebody's personal web site are also not blogs, though this message is being composed on that type of software within this blog. Including too many things under the term "blog" obscures the origins of other forms of web publishing which already exist and deserve to be understood on their own terms.
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