What is blogging?
This blogger has some very definite views on blogging. Here’s a synopsis of his definition.
Blogging is about three things: Posting, Subscribing, and Tagging. These are the three essential and fundamental functions. They are the building blocks for all the different kinds of blogging.
Blogging is not limited to posting a short blast of text into Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress, or Live Journal. Blogging is way bigger than that.
- Podcasting is blogging.
- Posting photos to flickr is blogging.
- Building a link roll on del.icio.us is blogging.
- Posting your cell phone videos of your cat on vimeo is blogging.
- Building your personal page on MySpace.com is blogging.
- Anytime a user posts their content on the web in a place they control for the world to consume, they are blogging.
The following activities are not blogging yet, but are very close and should soon be bloggable.
- Writing a book or record review on Amazon.com.
- Placing an item for sale on eBay.
- Posting an event on evdb.com.
- Writing a restaurant review on menupages.com.
Every time I talk to a person involved in “traditional media” who wants to understand the Internet, I tell them one thing: user generated content.
Until you get user generated content, you don’t get the Internet. And blogging is the platform for user generated content.