2021-February-11 Copied this article from my old Deflexion.com blog to Infinite Ink’s Hugo project, edited it, and published it on Infinite Ink’s website.
2020-November-24
As of today, this
article, which was originally published
elsewhere,
has been on the web for
I’ve been thinking about how to redesign my websites and this got me thinking about what exactly is a blog. There are lots of articles about this, but here’s my take on it.
"log" means "diary" or "journal" or "listing" or "notebook" or "record"Today "blog" is used to describe almost anything on the internet that is periodically updated. You can even think of old-fashioned .plan and .project files, which are available via the finger command, as blogs.
This means that all the streams that I produce can be thought of as blogs. Here are some of my blogs:
In the previous section,
the first two are usually called microblogs. The third (bookmarks) is sometimes called a
link blog or
side blog.
The fourth is always called a blog (except by people who refuse to use the word "blog" because they don’t like it from a language perspective).
The fifth is usually called a tumblelog.
The last, my Infinite Ink website, is not usually called a blog, but if you believe
what I wrote
in section 2
above,
it
is.
For more information about the history of blogging, see: