Glossary: blog
"Blog" is short for Web Log, a new form of expression enabled by the Web.
Blogs are like personal home pages, but with several differences.
They tend to be updated more regularly than traditional static pages. They
often include dynamic content such as bulletin boards or discussion forums.
And increasingly after 9/11 they're becoming a half-way form between personal
diaries and traditional journalism. All of which is to repeat the first
sentence: a new form of expression enabled by the Web.
A now-famous article by Henry Jenkins in
Technology Review
helped move blogs into the forefront of Web innovation. You can click the link for
the first couple of free paragraphs, but you'll have to pay if you want to read
the whole thing. A nice post on
e.thePeople
discusses blogs in the context of online democracy. Probably the most successful
blogger in the world right now is
Andrew Sullivan,
which tends to confirm our
opinion that the right has embraced Web technology more successfully than
the left.
Our Trouble-Tickets bloggers are up to something a little unusual. We're exploring blogging as
a medium for original theory and strategy. Not necessarily so formal as you'd find in
conventionally published venues. But nevertheless at a pretty high level of rigor.
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