rebecca mead of The New Yorker ---a blog consists primarily of links to other Web sites and commentary about those links. ...most of the new blogs are intimate narratives rather than digests of links and commentary. ...the CB radio of the dave eggers generation
-a place where you put your voice online, updated frequently- says derek powazek
who mead mentions because in June 2000 powazek wrote: if you're a weblogger who's only care is trying to get a link or worrying what the "popular kids" are up to, go away. This site is no longer for you. (In fact, this is the last time I will ever address this proverbial "you" directly.)

IN Julian Dibbell re. Jorn Barger
blog as collection ..good. my - preservation..
-should add that I’m not the first person to draw the parallel between the Web log and the Wunderkammer. should also add that I have no idea who was.
-The brittle logic of the hierarchical index has its indispensable uses, of course, as has the crude brute strength of the search engine. But when their limits are reached (and they always are), only the discriminating force of sensibility will do -- and the more richly expressed the sensibility, the better.
-Barger coined the term [blog] himself when he started his Web log robotwisdom in 1997, though he was hardly the first person to have kept one. "being as transparent as possible"

-also re. sites like About.com, laced with linky content drizzled out by semi-amateur specialists, have incorporated elements of Web logging into their business models //better to see answers.com
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also today: beebo.org and randomwalks
what is the wolist?
and from already: eyes wide apart - yes nice drawings -weblog as doodles, I like that and: "Does it look like she's in love with a foot or do you "get" that it's a lifeguard??!" do.you.GET.