{"id":970,"date":"2008-01-04T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2008-01-04T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T23:46:00","slug":"not-getting-the-whole-blogging-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Not Getting the Whole Blogging Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people just do not get the concept — in this case, the concept of blogging.<\/p>\n

When you write a blog, you either link to a web site you have visited (blog<\/em> = web log, remember) and you comment<\/strong> on it. Even a Glenn Reynolds-ish<\/a> “Heh” counts as a comment.<\/p>\n

Or you write what amounts to an online diary entry. Those are the two main types of blogging.<\/p>\n

But lately, thanks to Google Alerts, I noticed that some Pagan bloggers think that cutting and pasting Wikipedia entries counts as blogging. Examples: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>. There are probably more.<\/p>\n

If you cannot link-and-comment, or write about your day (or night), then there is always the Japanese option: Tell what you ate for lunch<\/a>. <\/p>\n

⟨\/RANT⟩<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, read Doug Cowan’s Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet<\/a>\"\" for a broader perspective than I can offer in a blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people just do not get the concept — in this case, the concept of blogging. When you write a blog, you either link to a web site you have visited (blog = web log, remember) and you comment on it. Even a Glenn Reynolds-ish “Heh” counts as a comment. 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