Blogging for Dummies?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday June 6, 2002 @01:57PM from the flame-retardant-suit-necessary dept.

Guinnessy writes "Wired News reports that one of the most respected journalism schools in America is going to be teaching blogging as part of next semester's course. I find this quite interesting, especially considering the existing controversy over whether blogging, such as Slashdot, is real journalism or not. I still haven't made up my mind." "Blog" now takes the cake as the most ill-used word of 2002. Please draw distinctions between webpages with news, mindless link propagation, discussion sites, personal diaries or journals, etc.

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Re:Slashdot a Blog? by scott1853 · 2002-06-06 15:25 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Call me an old fart (25), but back in the day when data transfer was 2400bps, things like this were called Message Boards. Now I know that it's not hip to allow two english words to come together to form the name of a technical entity, but we still use the term "newsgroups" now don't we.

So maybe we can shorten Messages Boards or acronymize it so it's cool:

Message Boards
Message Boards
Message Boards

There ya go. From now on things like this will be called Mebo's. That can be next years stupid term. Dibs on the trademarks though ;]