I am quite certain that most people feel quite differently than I do about what the term “Blog” refers to. Personally, I feel I stick rather closely to the original understanding that it’s shorthand for “weblog” (see also “Captain’s Log“). In my humble opinion, a blog is the result of using software to create a list of entries that are (at least) chronologically ordered (and may also be organized in other ways).
Yet for most people, I think “blog” means primarily something created be an individual. Thus, I disagree with most people insofar as I view things like twitter.com as a blog for billions of users (both people and robots 😉 ), yet most people don’t.
This is why most people seem to view most (if not all) blogs as ridiculous and insignificant. Just the other day I did a somewhat “deep dive” into this queer prejudice here: “The Innumerable Empty Spaces that Separate Big Things from Small Things” [ https://phlat.design.blog/2024/11/02/the-innumerable-empty-spaces-that-separate-big-things-from-small-things ].
Most people are more or less completely lost online — they have little or no publicacy skills whatsoever (see also “What is Publicacy + Why does it Matter?“). Since they have little or no knowledge about the vast amounts of personal information they voluntarily share with marketing companies and spy organizations (see “The BIC Browser is Watching You“), they are oblivious to the propaganda they consume on a daily basis as if it were something like scientific knowledge. I am beginning to think that nothing short of a holocaust will ever motivate a sizable portion of the population to wake up.
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