AOL To Launch Blogging Service

Jorkapp writes "Later this summer, AOL will launch its 'AOL Journals' blog service, provided free to its members. AOL Journals (named as such, since a survey showed the average user found the word 'blog' to be confusing) will allow users to post text, pictures, and voice entries. More information can be found at the Washington Post."

Comments

Informal Review already released

[SpriteGF]

Here's one weblogger's take on the service. Most notably, the author quotes,

The demo was going to be off-the-record, but because the opinion grinders in the room didn't turn the team into mincemeat -- reaction started with "this doesn't suck" (noted as high praise indeed), and quickly elevated to "they have a clue," and ended with "good job"...

Re:Bloogle

[generic-man]

They already have, sort of. The Beta Google Toolbar includes a "BlogThis" button, similar to the Bookmarklet that Blogger offered before.

I wouldn't mind a blog-only search engine, considering how much noise blogs have added to the web. It's so annoying to search for a song lyric or quote to find the source, only to find that thousands of blogs have cleverly used it as a title.

karma to burn

[einer]

me too!

Blog != Journal

[Fu Ling-Yu]

You, Sir, are a cad and a bounder! There is big difference between weblog and journal. A journal is someone notes and thoughts and observations of what they are doing.. somewhat like a diary, but online. Okay, a lot of weblog are like that, but that's not technically a weblog.

A weblog is a site that primarily links to other site, links to interesting online finds, and so on. Somewhat like Slashdot, Memepool or MetaFilter. A weblog like Slashdot is not comparable to an online journal belonging to some 16 year old girl!!