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Is it an acronym or what? I am so non savvy on this s--t I could scream. Why does a BLOG exsist? Who needs one, are they valuable?
Come on Man...!
CrazyJack
-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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It's short for Web Log which simply means someone is posting their journal on the internet for all the world to read.
Don't scream Jack, just ask!
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3722 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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One of the channels I used to watch in the evenings while winding down now starts their news broadcast at 8pm. The first hour is a watered down version of the news mixed with a little entertainment and special interest stories, but it's still 3 HOURS of continuous news, the same stories repeated over and over.
*Click* I'm watchin' The Simpsons.
I guess all the media isn't all that bad, they're doing a pretty good job at hoarding the airwaves and keeping me away from the TV because of it.
-------------------- "If I share all my wisdom I won't have any left for myself."
Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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In a blog,its very important to present yourself as an intellectual and moral superior who also happens to be sensitive,political and spiritual...and because of your MENSA-esque IQ and higher understanding of the most basic issue of the world you live your life in great emotional inner turmoil because noone else can seem to agree with you....thus giving you an excuse to take out your "angst" against the rest of the world by writing horrific poetry,tone deaf songs and taking snippets of every news story currently in play and providing them with your own idealized slant to further prove your wisdom to the world too bad they're too stupid to understand your great depth. Questioning the validity is a crucial player in being a good blogger.......these points are important because as a real blogger,you're a tortured,darker but younger version of hemingway or some other such journalistic icon who's being held down thru some unseen force and not your own lack of talent,which you could see for yourself if you ever read your own 'prose'. You must also claim your horrendous distate for popular culture and desire for anarchism,while proving your individuality by dressing and talking just like everyone else you know to prove just how against the system you are. Also the blogger's picture must be taken slightly off-center, in black and white, while wearing black box-framed glasses that are too small for their face. This not only displays your EMOness and politically correct metrosexuality,it really gives readers a deeper perspective of how intellectual & complex the blogger is while, at the same time, displaying his/her feelings of general angst and self loathing.......which words must subsequently be used also on a daily basis in the box that says MOOD: so that the entire world can see that youre a whiny little idiot with a fantasy personality who comes up with ultra descriptive phrases to tell the rest of the world that you simply couldnt have your way today and noone bought into your psuedointellectual BS but you..........the words 'bane of my existence', 'inane','banal','trite' and 'self loathing'and 'vitriolic' must be used at least once a week in a blog entry to separate the true blogger from the poser. None of these points address the real point of blogs,which is that they serve as a flashing reminder that if the focus of your life is your daily self stroking posted "privately" where the entire world can see it,you should really think about not spending 19hours out of 24 online,get your ass out of the house and get real friends.
-------------------- Gavin Chachere Plotter in the garage,New Orleans La.
"Sgts Shugart and Gordon again request permission to rope down to crash site two" Posts: 1223 | From: new orleans.la. | Registered: Mar 2000
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Gavin! You just get better and better. Letterville is my blog. (Blog kinda sounds like a cross between a booger and a wad of phlegm) Love....Jill
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Blogs keep us informed. It's not easy to pick them - and I have not yet gotten there to have a line-up of them to read.
But the Bloggers, the Web-loggers, who write their daily diaries and who research the real news and tell us about what the Television no longer covers, are important now.
Have you noticed that - while we are at war - things like Lacy Peterson, Michael Jackson, the death of the Pope, the election of the Pope, are all taking WEEKS to cover in exclusivity?
That in the search of other newsworthy things to blow out of proportion ( right now it is the runaway bride with the eyes like saucers) are monopolizing the news channels and hide our horrible blunders otherwise?
Oh well!
The blogs that come out of Iraq, of people who are there and tell the truth, make my blood run cold.
-------------------- Myra A. Grozinger Signs Limited Winston-Salem, NC
signslimited@triad.rr.com Posts: 1244 | From: Winston-Salem, NC USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I agree with Myra. Blogs are one of the great developments in the evolution of the web - a real "power to the people" kinda thing.
Sure, some (well, most) are a waste of space. But there are a lot of energetic and talented people out there, and having a few good bloggers bookmarked is sorta like having your own personal team of research assistants.
-------------------- Steve Purcell Purcell Woodcarving & Signmaking Cape Cod, MA
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But, Steve, that is true only if you agree with them. Hahahahahahahahaa!
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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-------------------- Gavin Chachere Plotter in the garage,New Orleans La.
"Sgts Shugart and Gordon again request permission to rope down to crash site two" Posts: 1223 | From: new orleans.la. | Registered: Mar 2000
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quote:Originally posted by Steve Purcell: Beam me up, Scotty...
precisely
-------------------- Gavin Chachere Plotter in the garage,New Orleans La.
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I too enjoyed Gavin's seething insights on the caricature of his poster child for useless bloggers... but I would also agree with Myra & Steve that blogs can be of value. Spam sucks, but email has it's place... even if half of my email is spam... Besides political, or personal diaries, blogs for use in business websites has potential that is about to explode.
Since many won't take the time to follow links I'll paste a little bit of an interesting article, then a few links for those interested in it.
quote:Along with the lack of mainstream media understanding of the many different varieties of blogs, is a lack of awareness of how powerful blogs can be in the search engines.
My recent blog post entitled "Blogs equal SEO power in searches", which was reprinted in the widely read search engine optimization and search engine marketing WebProNews opened a lot of eyes. The SEO blog power was simply unknown.
After all, the marketing, public relations, and SEO strengths of blogs are seldom reported in the mainstream news media. Business blogs rarely make a news appearance at all.
In that widely read and commented article, I wrote:
By way of an SEO blog example, here are some search results for Blog Business World for uber competitive keywords.
We'll examine the search for the two word phrase "business world" without the quotes.
On Google, this blog ranks #8 out of an incredibly mind boggling 158,000,000 returns. You read that correctly. 158 million search results.
Okay, I'm not number on on page one. Of course, ranking just behind the BBC and the World Bank isn't too shabby.
Those search result numbers woke up many readers to the idea of how a blog could raise the profile of their business or organization.
...anyway, if anyone cares, that blog was written less then 2 weeks ago & the rest of it (& it's links) can be found HERE.
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I'll quote excerpts of another article I found interesting on this topic:
quote: Not that long ago, blogs were one of those annoying buzz words that you could safely get away with ignoring. The word blog — it works as both noun and verb — is short for Web log. It was coined in 1997 to describe a website where you could post daily scribblings, journal-style, about whatever you like ...
Unlike a big media outlet, bloggers focus their efforts on narrow topics, often rising to become de facto watchdogs and self-proclaimed experts.
Big whoop, right? But it turns out some people actually have interesting thoughts on a regular basis, and a few of the better blogs began drawing sizable audiences. Blogs multiplied and evolved, slowly becoming conduits for legitimate news and serious thought...
Most of America couldn't have cared less. Until December 2002, that is, when bloggers staged a dramatic show of force. The occasion was Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party, during which Trent Lott made what sounded like a nostalgic reference to Thurmond's past segregationist leanings. The mainstream press largely glossed over the incident, but when regular journalists bury the lead, bloggers dig it right back up. "That story got ignored for three, four, five days by big papers and the TV networks while blogs kept it alive," says Joshua Micah Marshall, creator of talkingpointsmemo.com, one of a handful of blogs that stuck with the Lott story.
Mainstream America wasn't listening, but Washington insiders and media honchos read blogs. Three days after the party, the story was on Meet the Press. Four days afterward, Lott made an official apology. After two weeks, Lott was out as Senate majority leader, and blogs had drawn their first blood. Web journalists like Matt Drudge (drudgereport.com) had already demonstrated a certain crude effectiveness — witness l'affaire Lewinsky — but this was something different: bloggers were offering reasoned, forceful arguments that carried weight with the powers that be...
What makes blogs so effective? They're free. They catch people at work, at their desks, when they're alert and thinking and making decisions. Blogs are fresh and often seem to be miles ahead of the mainstream news...
Blogs have voice and personality. They're human. They come to us not from some mediagenic anchorbot on an air-conditioned sound stage, but from an individual. They represent — no, they are — the voice of the little guy.
that one was a little older... but if anyone cares to see what I edited from... or what else was there, here is the Source
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I use a "blog" site a friend of mine runs to post my "Tales of the Famous". It is the stories of painting at race tracks around the country. At first, I was not to excited about it, she made me do it, but I am getting responses from around the world. Up to "Lap 11". Take a look. Go to my web site and click on the link, "Tales of the Famous"
-------------------- Tony Vickio The World Famous Vickio Signs 3364 Rt.329 Watkins Glen, NY 14891 t30v@vickiosigns.com 607-535-6241 http://www.vickiosigns.com Posts: 1063 | From: Watkins Glen, New York | Registered: Sep 2001
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So basically, bloggers are just politicians?
-------------------- Maker of fine signs and other creative stuff. Located at 109 N. Cumberland ave. Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-837-0242 Posts: 4172 | From: Ages-Brookside, Ky. Up the Holler... | Registered: Jul 1999
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What a brain F--k! I guess if Ken Kesey or Kurt Vonnegut and others of thier ilk had blogs, I might be attracted to that, but........Man! What a waste. My thoughts in print? Ya wouldn't wanna know!
Thanks for the info Y'all and now I can scratch off one more thing I wasn't missing out on anyway.
CrazyJack.......? I am definately now for sure, in fear of the sane.!
P.S. Good show, Gavin...
-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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I think they should be publicly blogged... er... flogged. hahahahahahahahaha!
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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