Comments on: All the lonely people http://www.ryananderson.ca/2007/01/30/all-the-lonely-people/ Web strategy, design and communications. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:15:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe http://www.ryananderson.ca/2007/01/30/all-the-lonely-people/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Joe Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:55:17 +0000 http://www.ryananderson.ca/2007/01/30/all-the-lonely-people/#comment-216 It all relates to the same problem - people want to create some homogenous definition of "blog." The thing is, there are no similarities between The New PR, for example, and Timmy Tittlewad's MySpace site, except that they're both built on blogging engines, I suppose. A "blog" is a website created by some software that happens to make online publishing and information sharing easier. C'est tout. It's all about how it's used. At the risk of over simplifying, trying to link them all together for the purposes of writing (and marketing) a book is like trying to link every single media created by the printing press. It all relates to the same problem – people want to create some homogenous definition of “blog.” The thing is, there are no similarities between The New PR, for example, and Timmy Tittlewad’s MySpace site, except that they’re both built on blogging engines, I suppose.

A “blog” is a website created by some software that happens to make online publishing and information sharing easier. C’est tout. It’s all about how it’s used.

At the risk of over simplifying, trying to link them all together for the purposes of writing (and marketing) a book is like trying to link every single media created by the printing press.

]]> By: Brady Gilchrist http://www.ryananderson.ca/2007/01/30/all-the-lonely-people/comment-page-1/#comment-215 Brady Gilchrist Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:58:02 +0000 http://www.ryananderson.ca/2007/01/30/all-the-lonely-people/#comment-215 Agree with your Ryan - Give me a break really - Bloggers are adding texture to our understanding of things around us. Sometimes the mundane, sometimes the truly facinating. Blogging connect our ideas with the future and are an observation of the present. The posts we write today may just inspire someone to think a bit more about something somewhere. Blogging is about contribution nothing more nothing less. Every opinion has a bias but they are still important to share. Hell just about anything can be interesting if you are in the right frame of mind. (longtail thinking here) In a society where bias controls the media truth is an exercise in critical though. If there had been a bit more digging for the truth by the "real media" odds are the WMD question might have been answered long ago. I suspect that blogging in the future might provide an interesting form of check and balance for the big questions. There are so many examples of Blogs becoming part of mainstream culture that the idea of dismissing blogs and and generalizing demonstrates such prejudice that it's downright laughable. Once again it's that forrest for the trees thing...Good opinion piece Ryan. Agree with your Ryan – Give me a break really – Bloggers are adding texture to our understanding of things around us. Sometimes the mundane, sometimes the truly facinating. Blogging connect our ideas with the future and are an observation of the present. The posts we write today may just inspire someone to think a bit more about something somewhere. Blogging is about contribution nothing more nothing less. Every opinion has a bias but they are still important to share. Hell just about anything can be interesting if you are in the right frame of mind. (longtail thinking here)

In a society where bias controls the media truth is an exercise in critical though. If there had been a bit more digging for the truth by the “real media” odds are the WMD question might have been answered long ago. I suspect that blogging in the future might provide an interesting form of check and balance for the big questions.

There are so many examples of Blogs becoming part of mainstream culture that the idea of dismissing blogs and and generalizing demonstrates such prejudice that it’s downright laughable.

Once again it’s that forrest for the trees thing…Good opinion piece Ryan.

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