HOW MUCH WILL BLOGS IMPACT A2K?

Blogs as such are rather different from A2K. I am never as comfortable in the blog structure as I am in the simpler more people friendly old fashioned forums and boards such as this one.

While I maintain more than one blog, the immediacy and closeness of a forum like a2k does not exist for me on them. I utilize Blog Explosion, that gets me to visit a wide variety of blogs, but not that many keep me wanting to go back more than a few times.

BLOGS vs A2K?
Before I discovered A2K I had dabbled in several blogs and enjoyed reading other people's blogs. I like finding out what other people think. Their opinions are important. The problem, I found, with blogs, was that it was difficult (for me) to keep track of any one particular persons blog. I needed to go the extra mile and save it somehow, and after I while I gave up. Whereas, with A2K, it is very easy (for me) to keep track of any particular 'contribution'. And the way A2K have managed to keep things so well catalogued. If I have a query about a computer problem, I can go to 'Computers'. You know what I mean. I do not get lost in A2K. It is all there. But 'blogs' per-se, make me feel like that "ships in the night" feeling... after you have seen it, it is gone forever, lost in the swirl of all of the other blogs. I need consistancy and stability in my life. A2K is all of that and more. A2K is there when I need it. What more could I ask for?

Huh?

Are they not utterly different beasts?


I, for one, have almost no interest in blogs whatsoever, except for the odd one I have found from a place so different and interesting that I enjoy learning about the culture.


Am I missing something?

IMO, blogs and forum-based web communities, such as A2K, are very different critters. Lotsa folks, yours truly included, maintain and/or participate on a blog or blogs while simultaneously participating on a web forum or forums. I frequent several blogs, several forums, numerous web-based discussion boards and UseNet groups, and belong to a few email lists and WebRings. I see little reason any need to supplant any other; they each fill a particular function.

Thank-you Ladies and Gents,

Your prose made sense to me....TIMBER, how do you keep up with so much interneting? Perhaps you have little need for sleep.

I'm in front of a monitor most of the day for real work, a good deal of which involves forums, boards, and groups - during lulls, I bounce around the web a bit. I sometimes find I've posted something meant for one forum, board or group onto an entirely different forum, board or group; thats pretty embarrassing. Too many monitors, too many windows open on all of 'em

Timber, I don't know about webrings or usenet groups. If you have a minute, would you explain?

I'm with osso, I have not a clue, I'm not even sure what a blog is.

And I don't know the difference between web based discussion boards and forums...
I have a faint idea of what a blog is, but I've only checked links to them a few times.

bookmarking

Here is a good location to learn about blogs. It gives access to dozens of them.
http://www.blogexplosion.com/members/index.php

And please can someone tell me what the attraction is?


Like, to be blunt, unless someone has a fascinating life, or writes wonderfully, reading blogs is about as much fun, to me, as reading year 8 essays, or bad poetry.

Like blogs about something, ok, but endless maunderings about oneself?


Please enlighten this philistine Bunny!

Welllllll, I read some time ago, about that woman, whatsername, who does a u.s. oriented political blog - wonkette, that's it - and in the article about her was this further info re others. That was around the time of the Repub convention, I think, and the article was probably in the NYT. I presume there are lots of uptothe minute political blogs on lots of sides of issues. Yawn. I'm interested, but have a life myself, though that isn't all that apparent from my amount of checking in to a2k. To the extent that media has failed us in its role as questioner at the same time it gets louder and louder, blogs have filled a gap.

Personal blogs I don't know that much about, I'd rather read a good book.

Not all blogs are about tha blogger's personal life. Many are about writing, art, gadgets, business, politics, etc.

We have struck a soft spot in our knowledge. And we are avid internet folks...interesting. I need to visit some of the suggested websites.

PDiddie has a political blog.
I have a couple to push my writing.
NickFun has one that is mostly politics.
Cobalt has one for photographs and a bit of politicing.
They are free to start and maintain and can be about anything at all.

I'll back off re that I may shun personal blogs... indeed some may be - looking for adjective - more well done than a book could do, more enlivened...

I'm leaving room to like some personal blogs. Picturing Twain's blog...

Cautionary Browsing Note: Chasing the following links very well may provide you hours of distraction. It could be a while before you get back to A2K. I suggest you read this whole post before setting out onto the web at my direction. Don't say I didn't warn you -timber

Web Rings

UseNet

Email Lists

Web-based discussion boards are sorta like a cross between web forums (such as A2K) and UseNet groups; though directly accessible via web browser, they lack most of the bells-and-whistles of web forums. An example would be Yahoo! Message Boards - essentially single-subject discussion groups. Most are unmonitored, to say nothing of unmoderated. Web forums more or less grew out of Discussion boards, which more or less are a development of UseNet groups, which sorta evolved from Bulletin Board Systems, which owe their existence to Ward Christensen, who's CBBS (Computerized Bulletin Board System - frequently misidentified now as Chicago Bulletin Board System) was the progenitor. It was a byproduct of The Blizzard of 1978.

For more of great interest to very, very few ( ), see: The History of the Internet

And the UltraGeeky will get a kick out of this archived copy of The First Website on the World Wide Web

As long as I'm on a roll here, let me further bore those still trying to follow along with the First Webcam, which went online - sorta (there really wasn't much of a "LINE" yet to go onto) - in late 1991, sadly to be switched off on Wednesday 22nd August 2001 and now defunct. Read all about it HERE.

OK, long, aimless ramble over. If you're still here, and awake, please resume your normal browsing.