Comments on: Meet the Bloggers http://soreeyes.org/archive/2006/08/29/meet-the-bloggers/ Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:02:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: John http://soreeyes.org/archive/2006/08/29/meet-the-bloggers/#comment-26309 John Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:16:21 +0000 http://soreeyes.org/archive/2006/08/29/meet-the-bloggers/#comment-26309 Would that the media were as discerning as you and I... For the record, the programme was perfectly fine, so long as you think that an online journal is a weblog, and provided that you're more interested in hearing webloggers talk about themselves than you are in hearing about what makes weblogs a different and interesting form of media. I'd imagine that when they get to the episode about political weblogging the differences between weblogs and other media will come into sharper focus. Would that the media were as discerning as you and I…

For the record, the programme was perfectly fine, so long as you think that an online journal is a weblog, and provided that you’re more interested in hearing webloggers talk about themselves than you are in hearing about what makes weblogs a different and interesting form of media. I’d imagine that when they get to the episode about political weblogging the differences between weblogs and other media will come into sharper focus.

]]> By: Gary Farber http://soreeyes.org/archive/2006/08/29/meet-the-bloggers/#comment-26258 Gary Farber Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:25:06 +0000 http://soreeyes.org/archive/2006/08/29/meet-the-bloggers/#comment-26258 Yeah, I tend to, loosely -- but firmly! -- distinguish between blogs and personal journals, up to the point where it's reasonable, myself. And I like lots of personal journals just fine. But if they're 95% about personal writing, with few links, they're the latter, IMO. Yeah, I tend to, loosely — but firmly! — distinguish between blogs and personal journals, up to the point where it’s reasonable, myself.

And I like lots of personal journals just fine. But if they’re 95% about personal writing, with few links, they’re the latter, IMO.

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