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Date Posted: 17:27:06 02/27/03 Thu
Author: Dave Gilson
Subject: A thought about blogs

I have been pondering writing a blog for sometime, (as Phil will testify to!). After having read a news story at reuters and having a go at one of my research problems, it occurred to me that it could even make sense for one to have more than one blog, catagorised by content. For instance, one for work (say for some sort of collaboration), one for social and one for personal and/or angst related thoughts.

Then with thinking about how you set about actually making something like this, I had to ask myself the question: With the proliferation of personal websites, how the heck did blogs become so popular? I could (and in a way already did for a while, see .plan at my website) write my own blog, and it would be very simple to annotate and format in HTML. I could write my own blogg and do the sort of things that I'd have to pay a company sponsored blogg for, all on my own web space.

Blogs could be popular because of the optional animinity, but anyone can set up a geocities or whatever website and be just as anonymous. Furthermore there are also internet forums (like this) that fulfill blog functions, for public content. What I'm doing now is a blog like post, I'm sharing my thoughts. I'll probably post a reply with a capture from MatLab displaying some mathematical physics work I'm doing that I've written in a blogg fashion as an example of an academic/work blogg.

So does anyone else have a clue why dedicated blog sites got so popular? Was it merely because of having the word 'blogg' in the url? Perhaps that was it, that's the only non-redundant feature I can think of!

D.

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