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Post new BLOG?

I think this is called a post. ;)

Posted by coley on Apr 26, 2007 in Blab | 41 comments

ADM on Apr 27, 2007

and this is a reply ;)

Betty on Apr 27, 2007

commenting on ADM's reply

tamashii on Apr 27, 2007

This is actually called a thread - with several posts inside the thread as comments.

Grusella on Apr 27, 2007

That's why it's called Blog Forum...

mhayes on Apr 27, 2007

Yepper

dyar on Apr 27, 2007

lol, I think coley was just making a test post before her iminlikewithyou.com invites post. But it looks like we're determined to keep it on top.

bcarneiro on Apr 27, 2007

Say something..

ajax on Apr 27, 2007

an ellipsis has three periods...

josh Vip-micro on Apr 27, 2007

We like finding and distorting the ambiguity of buzz words.

smalltide on Apr 27, 2007

Blogs rool teh intarwebs, FTW!

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bcarneiro on Apr 27, 2007

ajax: Try typing "Say something" and ... after

bcarneiro on Apr 27, 2007

so, that's why
Say something..

bcarneiro on Apr 27, 2007

Say smoehtnig

bcarneiro on Apr 27, 2007

ok, i'll stop now

ADM on Apr 27, 2007

say something...

ADM on Apr 27, 2007

I'm leet.. oh sorry 1337. haha.

justG on Apr 27, 2007

I didn't think this was a test post. I thought coley was making the point that some of us have made before (and on which josh picked up): that what IB calls a blog is actually a post (or a thread in the forum world, or an entry in the blog world).

travisseitler on Apr 27, 2007

...except in MySpaceLand, and everyone knows that if you want to sound like you know what you're talking about, you should sound like the MySpace crowd.

iqon on Apr 27, 2007

since we are being silly: "Here is my post about a postman suffering a post-traumatic episode after crashing into the goal post while running a post route. He was carried to the postmodern post office but left in a hurry to make post time at the track."

smalltide on Apr 27, 2007

Actually, blog is fairly accurate here, as each of us can post a thought/rambling/question/etc. and others can only leave comments.

Message boards and blogs are similar, what differentiates a message board from this is that replies can branch off into their own threads. We're all just commenting here, hence a blog.

It's kind of a gray area here - there are so many of us posting, and they've kind of segmented it into topics "Trade" "Blab" and what not.

I consider this a little more bloggy.

Starry on Apr 27, 2007

^^ AYE.

...now to go on a tangent. How many bleeding moose can you count in 20 seconds? (waits) You counted 0! Why, you ask? SIMPLE! BECAUSE MOOSE CAN'T BLEED!

Winnopeg on Apr 27, 2007

@josh: "blog" isn't a buzzword. Just get it right and call this thing a forum, k?

@smalltide: Forums and blogs are completely different. No offence, but you need to get out more if you think this is anything close to a blog...

iconmaster on Apr 27, 2007

weblog at Dictionary.com

A website that displays in chronological order the postings by one or more individuals and usually has links to comments on specific postings.

Website? Check. Chronological order? Sure. Postings by one or more individuals? Yup. Links to comments? Well, you got here somehow, right?

Heck, I don't how you could call this anything but a blog.... ;)

cheiie on Apr 27, 2007

Hah, oh my.
Knickers? Check. Bunched? Double check.
(Not you, iconmaster)

sloan on Apr 27, 2007

Post sounds so "after the fact"

Yippee it's time for bed...blog out...

coley on Apr 28, 2007

Hi dears,
I was just making a point that "blog" is misused, here. At the outset, this website says "Post new blog" when it should say "Write new blog *post* or blog *entry*". Something to that effect :) I'm not "posting a blog." The blog's the greater entity. I'm "posting TO the blog."

anti on Apr 28, 2007

Blog a new post?

sloan on Apr 28, 2007

blog a new blog on the blog forum works 4 me

coley on Apr 28, 2007

Blog is short for 'weblog.' Think about it this way. Star Trek.. Captain's log. A ship's log. There are entries into the log. When this site calls writing entries "writing blogs" ... that just isn't correct.

iqon on Apr 28, 2007

so Star Trek should have called it a 'slog

coley on Apr 28, 2007

yes!! :D

gswd on Apr 28, 2007

Or a Clog, since there was also a Medical Log, and First officer's Log, and I am sure that anybody who kept track of activities would have a log, maybe even engineering.

iqon on Apr 28, 2007

but Clog (Captain's log) would mean a weblog is a called a wlog.

gswd on Apr 28, 2007

Well, slog was for ship's log, wasn't it?

gswd on Apr 28, 2007

And also a person who wrote in the Clog would be a Clogger. :)

daveamun on Apr 28, 2007

I destroyed my keyboard by making a few entries by clogging. :-{

;-}

anti on Apr 28, 2007

The way I type, it is more of a two-step.

iqon on Apr 28, 2007

Arrgh, its hard to clog with a peg leg!

coley on Apr 29, 2007

When you write about tubes in the Clog, then the tubes are clogged :D

SuperLlamel on Apr 29, 2007

Just wanted to say that this is a random post. To contribute my random knowledge to all this, I will comment that the most common day for suicide is Monday, which comes as no surprise to me or Garfield. :D

Sevilla on Oct 11, 2007

say say say say, so i said something!