{"id":380,"date":"2005-07-19T17:53:53","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T21:53:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-22T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T15:09:43","slug":"what_is_a_blog_my_vision_after_one_year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fgiasson.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/07\/19\/what_is_a_blog_my_vision_after_one_year\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a blog? My vision after one year of blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my friend told me: &#8220;Fred, I want you to show me what a blog is&#8221;. More and more people are like him, they want to know what his blogging. They know the word but they need to know what it signify. Then it is what I done, giving him an overview of what is a blog and the main services that exist to support them. Then, when I came back from the rendezvous, I asked to myself: Fred, after one year of blogging, what is for me a blog? There we go.<\/p>\n<p>The name blog came from the two words: web log. Technically a blog is nothing more than a website with a certain typical layout and functionalities. Then, technically, what a blog is for me is nothing else than a web page template. This is a common layout used by millions of people. There is nothing new here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Then, if a blog is technically nothing new, why people talk about them?<\/em> Good question. We could try to define a blog by his usage, by checking how people are using their blogs.<\/p>\n<p>A blog is used for many purposes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To share daily adventures of an individual person<\/li>\n<li>For the marketing of a new product or a whole company<\/li>\n<li>To communicate with people that work in the same field of expertise<\/li>\n<li>To share ideas<\/li>\n<li>To manage knowledge<\/li>\n<li>To start discussion<\/li>\n<li>To inform about a specific subject or domain<\/li>\n<li>To create new contacts with other people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Yes but people are using the web like this since his beginning, no?<\/em> Yes. <em>Then, my question remains, why people talk about blogs?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I see blogging as a philosophy, a way to do things. What makes blogs, blogs, is the way people are using them, the bloggers community. This community is drive by an etiquette: the blogging etiquette. It is that etiquette that makes blogs, blogs. All the interactions between bloggers form the Blogsphere. Then, I could now define a blog by a website that follows the blogging etiquette by adding texts to the Blogsphere in hope to start a conversation with other users of that Blogsphere.<\/p>\n<p>This is my vision of blogs and blogging after 1 year.<\/p>\n<p>You, what are blogs for you? What is blogging? 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