Can’t seem to remember when I first heard about ‘blogs’. It sure wasn’t 5 years ago!!
Posted : May 28, 2004 at 5:49 pm [America/Los_Angeles]
[via Scripting News]
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Weblogs, typically, are personal Web sites operated by individuals who compile chronological lists of links to stuff that interests them, interspersed with information, editorializing and personal asides. A good weblog is updated often, in a kind of real-time improvisation, with pointers to interesting events, pages, stories and happenings elsewhere on the Web. New stuff piles on top of the page; older stuff sinks to the bottom.
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More fleshed out than a simple link list but less introspective than an online diary, a good weblog is also a window onto the mind and daily life of its creator. By providing an up-to-the-minute and also fully archived record of what they’ve found in their browsing and what they think about it, weblog creators provide their readers with evolving snapshots of the Web, refracted through a single editorial mind.
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Commercial Web outfits — particularly those that are primarily in the “content” business, like the Mercury — tend to be wary and suspicious of providing too many links beyond their own pages. They ask, “Why should we send our readers away?” That’s a short-sighted and ultimately self-defeating way of thinking, though: A weblog that’s mostly a table of contents for a single Web site is going to lack the variety of one that casts a wider net, and in the end it will fail to build the regular and growing following that the for-profit owner seeks.
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Normally, you would read something like this and hear yourself say “Yup, I already know this” and move on. However, if I told you that Scott Rosenberg (of Salon) wrote this in his article titled “Fear of Links” five years ago, I bet it would grab your attention. It sure grabbed mine!
So what was I doing five years ago 
- Anand
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