Comments on: Why Blogs Work

By: nwest

nwest — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:01:54 +0000

Some blogs work, but certainly not all. I’d suggest the vast majority of blogs are rarely visited and generate little traffic, or overall benefit to the internet as a whole. In order for blogs to “work”, they need to be worked on and properly maintained, contributed to, and updated.

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By: Nancy McGough

Nancy McGough — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:13:05 +0000

Yes, yes, I agree with you that a big part of why blogs work is that “users donâ€™t have to pick their URLs.” Another big part is that users don’t have to create links to their URLs, i.e., there is no need for a user to maintain a TOC (or portal page) to his/her site because it is all done automatically by the blog software. It’s infinitely easier than the days of desktop HTML editors, FTP software, mucking around with permissions and .htaccess files on the web server, etc., etc. I can’t imagine trying to teach a random non-techie all that arcane stuff now, but that is what I did to many people — including people over 70 years old — in the 1990s.

By: Darren Chamberlain

Darren Chamberlain — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:45:43 +0000

I like your premise, not least because it explains why I have always been so uncomfortable with all of the existing blogging tools I’ve tried.

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By: Mikael Petterson

Mikael Petterson — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:43:04 +0000

Interesting view of the subject.
I have also been thinking in why people use blogging. I personally think it is due to the following reasons:

First of all it is a more relaxed way of publishing. You don’t have to be that strict when typing.

Second it is new and fresh. Personal webpages have been around for a while ( remember that everyone wanted a webpage when internet spun off).

My third reason for blogging becoming so popular is focus around a subject. Many personal webpages tend to be something eye-catching but without a real topic ( Blogs is a topic so there is no need for a flashy page.)

//mrkeen

By: Nitin

Nitin — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:08:30 +0000

IMHO, not having to choose a URL or not having to think of an a hierarchy is not the reason blogging has become so popular. Infact every blogger does need to know about the URL of his/her own blog (where its published, how it fits under the parent hosting-site URL, etc. So I guess theres no escape from hierarchies either. Although people might not think of them as hierarchies).

I think the real reason blogging has become so popular has more to do with the fact that the learning curve is zero (or almost zero). Anyone who has ever written an email online knows how to edit text online in a text area and publish (send/submit/done..etc) it. All other publishing tools that you mention like html editors, ftp clients, content management systems, etc. have had fairly large learning curves.

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By: Murks

Murks — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:17:13 +0000

AFAIK most ebay users don’t use the search, but browse through the hierachical (!) categories instead. How does this fit into your picture?