[Info-vax] Blog Page instead of COV
Bill Gunshannon
bill at server2.cs.uofs.edu
Thu Aug 20 13:41:41 EDT 2009
In article <4a8ca21e$0$303$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> AEF wrote:
>> On Aug 14, 4:50 pm, Arne Vajhøj <a... at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> David Turner, Island Computers wrote:
>>>> Do you think we should do it?
>>>> We have the servers, the app and the bandwidth
>>>> Would everyone use it?
>>> There are plenty of places to get blog space.
>>>
>>> (Google offerhttp://www.blogger.com/)
>>>
>>> But a blog is not really a good replacement for
>>> usenet.
>>>
>>> A blog is for someone to write longer texts about
>>> something that interests them. And if it is actually
>>> interesting for others (very few are!), then readers
>>> can discuss the content.
>>>
>>> It is not good for questions.
>>>
>>> So blogs would be great for those that want to
>>> inform in detail about their thoughts about certain
>>
>> Inform? I think opine would be more accurate. And perhaps the
>> occasional rant.
>
> Those are the majority of blogs that people don't
> bother reading.
And here I thought creating a blog was intended primarily to
massage an already inflated ego.
But, what do I know?
bill
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