Is it a Blog, Or a Journal
1/17/2005
This is probably a stupid post. So warnings in advance if I seem to be slightly deluded or hopelessly dim. But I've been wondering about this journal.
The evil duo has been posting mostly news-related rants - probably because news is what gets our hearts pumping. But one feels the urge to define what something is, or is mostly, at any rate. It's a human impulse, no matter how unimportant it might seem, to classify and clarify. So is TFI a blog? Or a journal?
Is there really a difference? I'd like to think so, mainly because of semantics (I think the word 'blog' is just silly; it sounds like the noise a water cooler makes). Should we flip a coin, make it official, or even give it a moment's thought?
The word 'blog' seems to imply that TFI is part of some large uber-community of socially-conscious 'grassroots' folks with a political or social agenda. Truth is, we are just 1.5 people with too many opinions - and we thought this would make things easier for our friends to keep tabs on our current state of affairs. If we manage to save the world along the way, then that's an unplanned effect, a happy accident.
This article discusses the difference, and of course it's all up to personal opinion, but I think it's quite clear as to where TFI lies:
In short, and in my humble opinion, a traditional weblog is focused outside theWe are journal. We will not be a-bloggilated. It is now official.
author and his or her site. A web journal, conversely, looks inward — the
author's thoughts, experiences, and opinions. Some sites, of course, do both. So
to better see the "perfectly blurred" line, you have to step back a bit.
posted by Edward Svengali @ Monday, January 17, 2005,
