I answered that in a previous question, by pointing to a post I wrote last month about the evolution of blogging.

Absolutely. That and a river of news. A wonderful confluence of two modes of communication.

That's an excellent question. It was almost certainly one of my posts on 12/27/1997.

I don't understand this question, but it sounds interesting. Would you like to try again, but elaborate a bit more?

BTW, here's what makes a blog a blog, imho.

I'd like to ask myself a question.

They went out via email and were also posted to the web in chronologic order.

I was calling them "news sites." Then Jorn Barger called them weblogs. Then Peter Merholtz shortened it to "we blogs" and someone (I don't know who) decided to drop the "we" part and we were left with blogs.

I think Twitter and Facebook will "die" long before blogging and RSS does.

Also, believe it or not, I think more people are going to be running their own servers. I want to make that much easier. Services like Amazon EC2 and Rackspace make that possible.

Glad you asked!

You know I never heard that before! :-)

http://home.opml.org/ — disclaimer — it's my outliner. And I love it. I write everything in it. Including the Gizmodo piece above.

I'm proud of what blogs have become every time I read a personal statement from someone's heart that really captures the human experience. It's too bad that mainstream pubs had to try to hijack the term, but there are lots of other reasons to despise them. :-)

No, because I don't think those are really blogs. I think the big media saw an idea and tried to usurp it. But it didn't mean very much. You saw through it. So does everyone else. :-)

No I don't think blogs are going away, but I think the form will evolve, but maybe not very much, because it's a pretty simple idea — a person telling his or her story. In that sense it's not even very new. What is new, is the power for the individual to do it, for almost no money, and reach basically every person on…