Do you read Blogs?

[|Zach|]

Blogs have been really taking off. It seems as though they really pushed through during this last election. It is interesting because there is so much information from people that are experts in their fields or have varied intrests or are just interesting people.

There is also a push for the idea the blogs will be the future of local journalism. A set of blogs linked together with a loose affiliation with a newspaper...

What do you folks think of all of this?

Poll forthcoming.

[Ultra Peanut]

What kind of blogs are we talking about? BigStupidTommy's, or the livejournals of angst-filled teenage girls?

[Garcia Bronco]

wtf is a blog?

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by Psicosis

What kind of blogs are we talking about? BigStupidTommy's, or the livejournals of angst-filled teenage girls?

Heh, well I had more professional type ones in mind...but it is a very general question so I suppose anything is fair game.

Xanga and Live Journal are bringing watered down blogs to the masses.

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

wtf is a blog?

This was a dictionary explanation I found...

A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in cronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominantly.

Here are some examples...

http://www.waxy.org/
http://www.rhetorica.net/
http://www.verybigdesign.com/verybigblog/

[Ultra Peanut]

I haven't read Big Stupid Tommy's blog in months...

Sunday, January 02, 2005

Semantics in the New Year

We're in the year 2005 now.

Huzzah.

Want to know something that sounds completely alien to my ear?

When somebody says we live in the year "twenty oh five."

A newscaster was saying it as such this morning. It clunks.

It's not wrong, I guess. It just sounds weird to my ear.

See, I'm saying, now five years into the two thousands, "two thousand five."

I understand the twenty oh five mindset. We spent the nineteen hundreds, and the eighteen hundreds before them, and the seventeen hundreds before them, one would assume, calling the year "nineteen-seventy-four," or "nineteen oh five," or "seventeen seventy-six." Mostly because it would be awkward and time consuming to say that we declare independence on July the fourth, one thousand, seven hundred, seventy-six.

Or that I was born in the year one thousand, nine hundred, seventy-seven. That's eleven syllables. Nineteen Seventy Seven? That's just seven syllables. Much easier.

But we're in the two thousands, now. I'm thinking that that hundreds column is what's alien to my ear. See, if it were 2010, we could say Twenty Ten, and it wouldn't bother me.

But if I say "Twenty Oh Five," it's alien. I think it's the vowel ending "Twenty" and the vowel in the "Oh." That merging of two vowels is hard for my brain to understand. It's why I can't abide Iowa, Hawaii, or footballer Chris FuamatuMaafala.

And we can't call it Twenty-five, and just assume I'll Know what you're talking about. I might think its January 2, 25 AD. And then I'll end up being several hundred years late to work, tomorrow. Don't think my boss will like that.

So. Until 2010, I'll just call it two-thousand five, alright? To cut down on the confusion.

Editor's Note: I was lying. I really like saying "FuamatuMaafala." More than you would ever know.
posted by Tommy at 10:15
Comments (11)

Think of all of the Price is Right updates I've missed.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by ZachKC

This was a dictionary explanation I found...

A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in cronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominantly.

Here are some examples...

http://www.waxy.org/
http://www.rhetorica.net/
http://www.verybigdesign.com/verybigblog/

So...the Blogger...is blogging the Blog....LOL

Thanks

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

So...the Blogger...is blogging the Blog....LOL

Thanks

Heh, it is short for web log. It is basically a journal set in a standard format.

[Ultra Peanut]

Batty boy, not knowin' what a blog is. Ha! Ya silly geez.

[Michael Michigan]

Of course:

http://www.nationalledger.com/scribe/

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by Michael Michigan

Of course:

http://www.nationalledger.com/scribe/

I knew you were involved in all of this but was not sure if you had one yourself...very cool...I am going to add this to my list of feeds.

[2bikemike]

I never read them. I really didn't know what they were until just recently.

[|Zach|]

By the way MM....I think you would be very interested in www.rhetorica.net it has a lot of interesting discussion as far as journalism and new media.

[Hammock Parties]

Blogs are incredibly gay.

[Miles]

I just started reading them over the past month or so. Here are a few of my favorites:

http://www.gizmodo.com/
http://www.autoblog.com/
http://www.engadget.com/

I just started using this site to import a few blogs and to read the Post and Times.
http://www.bloglines.com