Re: Conlang blogs?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 7, 2003, 20:43 |
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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:23:30PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> What's a blog?
Welcome out from under your rock, Andreas. :)
A "blog" or "'blog", short for "weblog", is basically an online journal, or diary,
intended for public viewing (and possibly commenting). They've become
something of a web phenomenon over the past couple years. Wil Wheaton
has a popular general blog; shorter-term special-interest blogs
are also common. For instance, Ian McKellen kept a blog of the filming of the
Tolkein films, and one of the CNN reporters stationed in Iraq kept a blog
during the early days of the war, until AOL/Time-Warner shut it down.
There are a variety of software packages available to make blogging easy
(much simpler than usual web page editing tools, since blogs are content-driven
and all about the text rather than fancy formatting). The prototype was
called Blogger, but MoveableType is also very popular.
-Mark