{"id":525,"date":"2004-06-25T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/25\/AreBlogsReallyAllThat.aspx"},"modified":"2004-06-25T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T16:23:08","slug":"are-blogs-really-all-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/25\/are-blogs-really-all-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Blogs really &#8220;all that&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Seriously now&#8230; blogs are little more than personal home pages with built-in text editors.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>People put up web pages for a number of reasons, but it&#8217;s really all about a real or perceived notion that what they have to say is interesting to other people.&nbsp; Blogs are all the rage now because they&#8217;ve cut through the painful overhead of setting up and maintaining a web page.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s what I say, they&#8217;re nothing new, just a better implementation.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2001964841_gatesblog25.html\">Bill Gates is now going to get a blog<\/A>.&nbsp; Doesn&#8217;t he already have one <A href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/billgates\/default.asp\">right here<\/A>?&nbsp; Sure&#8230; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/billgates\/default.asp\">it<\/A> doesn&#8217;t look like a blog, but <A href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/billgates\/default.asp\">it<\/A> serves the same function.&nbsp; So, if Bill Gates already has <A href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/billgates\/default.asp\">a web page<\/A> that provides a forum for his views and news what is he really getting?<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Perhaps it&#8217;s not that simple.&nbsp; Our society is continuing to evolve from a formal to informal society.&nbsp; We don&#8217;t wear ties to work anymore.&nbsp; We don&#8217;t like our neighbor&#8217;s kids to call us &#8220;Mr. This&#8221; or &#8220;Mrs. That&#8221;.&nbsp; We prefer instant messaging over e-mail.&nbsp; Are blogs just an extension of that formal to casual transition our culture is making?<\/P><br \/>\n<P>A formal home page is cold and corporate.&nbsp; It has pretty graphics and structured layout.&nbsp; A blog tends to have fewer static pictures and the content, while structured, tends to be shorter and come in fits and bursts (My posts range from a couple lines to long boring rants no one reads&#8230; are you still here?).<\/P><br \/>\n<P>So what do you think?&nbsp; Are blogs really something new?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously now&#8230; blogs are little more than personal home pages with built-in text editors. People put up web pages for a number of reasons, but it&#8217;s really all about a real or perceived notion that what they have to say is interesting to other people.&nbsp; Blogs are all the rage now because they&#8217;ve cut through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techblog","tag-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}