Publishing, permanence, and transparencyJon put the whole story in perspective with good references and materials.
A palimpsest is a manuscript on which an earlier text has been effaced and the vellum or parchment reused for another. Under heavy surveillance (which has now ceased), Dave Winer reacted:Now that people have set up a system to record everything on Scripting that I post within five minute intervals, I don't think I'll be writing any more of that stuff here. I guess it's time for weblogs to become like television. Polished and politically correct. Impersonal. Commercial. [Scripting News]I understand and sympathize, but I think a bigger story is unfolding around us. Last year, I wrote an item entitled Walking the fault lines about my experiences with SOAP and WSDL. Scripting News picked up on it. (This was the same posting that began my serendipitous association with an Indian programmer named Nishant S. [1, 2].) Later that day, using the Meerkat aggregator, I noticed there were two versions of Dave's commentary, and I wrote: ... [Jon's Radio]
Ghost-BloggingBlogs of executives are starting to appear and at least some of them seems to be using ghost-bloggers according to a comment by Elwyn Jenkins (aka Microdoc) to my Blogs will fade away post is of any indication. Elwyn wrote:
"I would have to disagree that most of the writing can now go in-house for most corporations. People within corporations do not have the time to 'blog' for their company, and few feel that they can write. Already, I write three blogs for large companies and have a growing list of clientele. I will soon be putting writers on to handle the volume of writing. The task is to listen to what is going on within a company, learn the voice of a key person and blog for that person. The client ultimately publishes today's blog, but a professional writer, thinks up the ideas, and puts a spin on today's blog to match in with a series of events within the corporation."
My initial response was "Whoa! That's cheating." But I thought about it some more and tried to think about it from the perspective of businesses and executives. It made sense.[...]
If you are a forward-looking executive for a large corporation who wants to see how blogging can help you do your job better, but have either terrible writing skills or leaky-temper problems, give Elywin a call. I have both problems, but I don't have much of an *ss to cover. You do.
[Don Park's Blog]
Old job, new medium.
Sheepish [en]Thanks for helping me discover a really nice project.
I'm officially in love with Charlie. Thanks, Steph! [Stephanie Booth: Climb to the Stars! (Weblog)]
It is not exactly the same use. I have now one blog in english and the other in french. I do trackback between them when I translate an entry.
A Quiz
How many hits are there in Google on "weblog"? How many on "blog"? What's the total number of mentions for weblog and blog? (Hint it's about 8x the number of mentions of "web log" in quotes.) Answers within an order of magnitude count as correct and will be placed in a sweepstakes the grand prize of which is the chance to imagine having won a real sweepstakes. The solution is in the first comment to this blog entry....
[Joho the Blog]
Glaser'sguide to the blogosphere. Fascinating.
[Scripting News]
A guide to the celebs....
The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers
Re-reading this after a while is really interresting.