Owning A Pencil Doesn’t Make Someone Shakespeare
Nick n’ Kim riff on the question: “When is a Blog Not a Blog?”
So I’ll join in.
I think the blogging world can be divided into two camps. Those who have read the Cluetrain Manifesto, and those who have not. Or those who have an opinion, and those who do not.
The last thing blogging is about is software. That’s just content management. Blogging is mostly about participating in a conversation. People who regurgitate press releases and news stories without adding context, comment or punditry aren’t blogging, they’re distributing.
Google News, and other such aggregation services, make the act of distribution redundant. Leave that to Newscorp. Blogging must sound, and be, human, else it is dead.
My two cents.
PS: Opinions expressed in this blog are proudly half-baked 
May 8th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
Half-Baked articles are the best to read! lol
Although, I would like to build on what you have said here. It is my opinion that a blog is a blog, no matter if it’s opinionated or not, as long as it has a personality. Keyword ‘personality’.
May 8th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
A good word, “personality”. I love the bloggers who have a lot of personality in their writing. It sounds easy, but it’s very difficult to do well.
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