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What Is A Blog?
I wrote a blog post a ways back called Posting, Subscribing, and Tagging that I think was one of my best posts.
In that post, I argued that:
Blogging is not limited to posting a short blast of text into Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress, or Live Journal.
Blogging is way bigger than that.
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Anytime a user posts their content on the web in a place they control for the world to consume, they are blogging.
The reason I bring that back up is that I have added a "blog" to my blogroll on the right column that is one of my favorite reads right now. It's from my friend Mark Ghuneim and I call it Media Eater.
If you are interested in the intersection of media, entertainment, technology, and the internet, you should subscribe via RSS.
And this "blog" was not created in any of the standard blogging platforms. It's a delicious page. But a delicious page like very few others I read. It feels a lot like a blog to me. Check it out and see for yourself.
When we made our investment in delicious, my friend Scott said that to him delicious was a next gen blogging platform. I didn't get it at the time. Now I do. Thanks guys.
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Posted October 9, 2005 in Venture Capital and TechnologyComments
aaaaah! Too much going on there. I can't settle in on that page. Of course, I'm not a good test market.
Posted by: jackson | Oct 9, 2005 10:14:59 AM
Fred,
If it took you this long to "get it" after being emersed in it daily, you can garuantee that users won't ever get it. Sorry but this blog platform is "semmant-maticians" only ...
Jackson - you're in the majority.
Posted by: David Gibbons | Oct 9, 2005 12:16:24 PM
Since del.icio.us is being flexed and used differently than most by Mark Ghuneim, I see del.icio.us at that critical point where innovation is starting to occur. It is very much indeed "next generation."
Take this quote from Francis Bacon from his "On Innovation" essay written in 1625:
"As the births of all living creatures are, at first, mishapen, so are all innovations"
Imagine all those things that users failed to get, and are now ubiquitous.
Posted by: Page | Oct 9, 2005 2:01:56 PM
I like mediaeater's page a lot, but I find using your main del.icio.us page as a blog to be a bit overwhelming. What I started to do awhile back was partition my posts with "content" into the toby:editorial tag. I created a simple bundle for my MicroBlog and added toby:editoral along with a few others. It's definetly less ambitions that the mediaeater page but it works for me.
Posted by: Toby | Oct 9, 2005 2:30:54 PM
The Calacanis-AOL Deal has me thinking about how Blog Networks are really what About.com started. Community guides of yesteryear are the blogs of today.
I admire Jason even though he lacks style, and specializes in cheap stunts (free iPod). He has a way of running a business and squeezing some profit by keeping overhead low. Stingy CEO's are always at the minimum profitable.
Blog portals are officially here. The editorial content is suspect when you become a blog portal under a parent company. No denying it. More and more corporate motives will creep into the blog editorial.
Eventually, blogs networks will become comprimised: this was the signal. I wonder if HackADay will post any AOL Hacks. Will comments now be filtered?
Posted by: Marina Architect | Oct 9, 2005 5:25:47 PM
I agree with Page one hundred percent. It's an omission people make almost intuitively, even your friendly vc's do it, but most of us forget that everything, including technology, improves overtime. (Hence; jackson's reaction).
Scott was absolutely right. Delicious is a new gen blogging platform, simply because it takes Mark two clicks to make a blog entry and it takes me around about 10 or so.
Mark probably has the "post to delicious" button in his browser which lets him post blog entries seamlessly as he surfs the net. Me on another hand, I've gotta go the site, login, click a few buttons in the control panel and basically distract my self from what ever I am doing so I can do a post. Mark doesn't- that's why delicious wins.
And yes, as ugly and misshapen Mark's blog is right now, it's going to improve until one day, bang, and everyone gets it.
(Sorry Mark, it’s not that bad. I for one can’t care less about colors, graphics and your other assorted distractions. What would be nice is that if you could insert hyperlinks into the extended description- but then again, that would take focus away from the post. So….you have a unique publishing medium which is suited for infomaniacs like investment banking professions for example. I can see heaps of analysts out there tagging the source they want, doing a 5 line comment and passing it on to their team leader ‘cause the guy wouldn’t be caught dead reading anything longer than that. It’s microformat publishing at it’s perfectly suited for the time strapped times we live in. Good Idea! Well Done.)
I see this happening everyday. It's happening with heaps of the Demo companies too. It happens to all new companies- people forget that things improve over time.
Posted by: Daniel Nerezov | Oct 10, 2005 1:36:43 PM
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