{"id":18,"date":"2007-10-02T15:35:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T05:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neuralglue.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2008-06-18T16:38:57","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T06:38:57","slug":"blogs-whats-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neuralglue.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Blogs &#8211; what&#8217;s different&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>I attended the &#8216;This Is Not Art&#8217; festival last weekend. Great vibe, lots of cool stuff and a host of talks on interesting things. However &#8211; it was also a bit frustrating as almost all the talks that I attended missed the central point of their respective argument.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the blog.<\/p>\n<p>I heard that the blog was different to a website because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is &#8216;interactive&#8217; which I guess means that you can comment<\/li>\n<li>It is easier to write than a web page (well I guess they haven&#8217;t tried to use a third generation CMS like\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Steer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wranglers.com.au\/products\/steercms\/\">steer<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>It is easier to read than a standrd webpage (ie most webpage designs are crap)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of this is missing the point of a blog. A blog is\u00c2\u00a0<em>temporal<\/em>. It has a history, a timeline, a context.<\/p>\n<p>Bloggers (at least the ethical ones) don&#8217;t go back and correct blogs. You don&#8217;t revise and republish. The primary navigation for a standard blog is time &#8211; either via a &#8216;previous&#8217; &#8216;next&#8217; decoration or directly via an archive.<\/p>\n<p>And this central idea gives the benefits above. It is interactive because it is fixed in a context. That later posts can contradict earlier and it is understood that they do. You can influence a blogger via a comment system because it is a historically recorded conversation.<\/p>\n<p>It is easier to write than a web page (ad easier to navigate) because there are fewer choices. I don&#8217;t need to worry about where to post this rant because it will be posted under &#8216;today&#8217;. I don&#8217;t need to worry about if it belongs under \/rants\/philosophy\/web or under \/general\/discussion\/meaning\/blogosphere. I just post it and everyone understands the primary navigation.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the temporal nature of the blog is also its biggest weakness. Because I only have some simplistic keyword tagging tools, this post will lose a chunk of semantic information by not being located under one of the categories above.<\/p>\n<p>Which is the subject for a different post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the &#8216;This Is Not Art&#8217; festival last weekend. Great vibe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuralglue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuralglue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuralglue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuralglue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuralglue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuralglue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuralglue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuralglue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuralglue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}