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Isn't stretching to distinguish the concept of a blog or blogging from something like "traditional websites" or "usenet forums" an admission of the inherent reality that in fact blogs are not distinguishable from these activities or concepts at all? It seems clear to me now that you can't compare blogging to web publishing because in fact what has happened is that web publishing has become blogging. We struggle to compare between this and that precisely because we cannot.

Medical blogs

The subsection on medical blogs mentions blogs "that deals with actual patient cases." Can we have a link (in the article or here) or explanation or something? Bondegezou 16:13, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

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Blogorrhea - Alternate meaning

Blogorrhea -A portmanteau of "blog" and "logorrhea", meaning excessive and/or incoherent talkativeness in a weblog.

I always thought that this was a portmanteau of "blog" and "diarrhea" (also spelt as "diahorrhea")... Meaning pretty obvious... Even if that's not the origin, I think it's a commonly assumed definition.

-- Lucanos 22:23, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Examples

Could we perhaps remove all external links to examples of blogs from this article? The few that are notable and worth linking have articles we can link, and the others are just non-notable blogs people wanted to promote and added in. What's more, we shouldn't be putting external links outside the external links section except for references, which these aren't. --fvw* 21:49, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

YES. We should remove all of the examples. Most of them are relatively unknown blogs. As long as we put up with some of them, people will continue to use this article as free advertising. Rhobite 06:17, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Nice timing, thanks. I've just done a major purge. Now if we all join in in keep this article clean this might not have to become a monthly chore. --fvw* 06:23, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Intro Formatting

The intro to this article is rather long, and pushes the table of contents down the page to the point where it is not immediately useful. Perhaps this should be reorganized? Thesquire 06:25, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Category Formatting

There are a large number of categories of blogs, with most categories having very little text. If there is no objection, I plan on consolidating a number of the categories to create tighter and easier to read article. Thesquire 06:33, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

FWIW, I support keeping blog and political blog split, as well as consolidating and removing some of the cruft from this article. Good work. Rhobite 01:01, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

• Can anyone give me some links to actual, working "FriendBlogs"? I can't find any English language examples via Google, and the only web engine for it that I could find, Funchain.com, is apparently down. Also, the vast majority of hits for that word are of mirrors of this article. If I'm not able to find multiple, working examples of one of these soon, and no one posts any examples here on the talk page, I will delete the category. Thesquire 06:16, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

I finally managed to catch Funchain when it was up, and couldn't immediately see any difference between its blogs and a normal blog, so I'm removing FriendBlogs as a category. Thesquire 19:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

• As the Partner Blog category seems read more as a proposal than as a description of something that already exists, I am removing its category. If anyone disagrees, they are more than welcome to revamp the text, possibly spinning the section (or the entire collaborative section) off into its own article. Thesquire 21:16, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

• Is there any reason for the etymology of the neologism "blawg" in the Topical:Legal section? I realize that it's an often-used term for that subset of blogs, but if anything it belongs in Wiktionary, if at all. Unless someone one squawks I'm deleting it in a few days. Thesquire 09:19, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

"Glogs"

According to the article: "Ham radio also had logs called "glogs" that were personal diaries made using wearable computers in the early 1980s."

Wearable computers in the 80's? "Glogs"? Via ham radio? Is any of this true?? Korny O'Near 18:32, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Checking the history of the CyberLog and "glog" entry shows it was posted anonymously by 24.103.60.117 on 1 January 2003. Since then it has been transmogrified by further anonymous editors, and it seems the original meaning has been lost. I've read through some of the hyperlinks in the last 24 hours, and much of it reads like an LSD trip, making one think it was all made up as a joke. However, it seems there's truth to the story, since Steve Mann, cofounder of the Wearable Computing Project at the MIT Media Lab, began experimenting with some crude homebrew equipment in the early 1980's while he was a student at MIT. That was a decade before the World Wide Web, 17 years before IEEE 802.11 WiFi became a published standard, and they were playing around with wireless networking using amateur radio equipment operating in the VHF and/or UHF bands. Wearable computers haven't been an interest of most radio amateurs; amateur radio was a means to an end for a few individuals interested in wearable computers. The paragraph probably needs to be revised by going back to the beginning and researching the sources of the story. Quicksilver 22:32, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup

I posted the cleanup notice because this article is a mess and I don't have enough time to clean up all of it myself. If you want to help, you do some of the tasks mentioned above, or help out in any way possible, really. For example, the History section is much too long and merits its own article - if someone willing to massively edit that huge section were to split it off, that'd go a long way towards making this article shorter and more readable. Most text past the Formatting section needs to be substantially re-written, if not removed as dross, so feel free to do that as well. Thesquire 17:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

• • Really, shouldn't all these damned subsets of blogging be on their own pages? I can't refer anyone to this article, it's rediculous! (comment by 24.22.34.238)

All these "damn subsets" are under consideration for consolidation, removal, or expansion into their own pages, as noted above. Even when categories are split off, though, a summary is left on the main page, so there's only so much that can be done with splitting off categories. Splitting off the history page, though, would cut down on the article size immensely. Thesquire 01:51, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Verb for reading blogs?

I was just wondering if anyone knows the word X in this sentence: "X is to blogging as reading is to writing"?