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Yahoo Experimenting with Blogs?
Tee Emm writes "Sven Latham reports on his Yet Another Blog that Yahoo is (probably) experimenting with its blog services for its general users. The test bench is in Korea and may be followed by an international service on yahoo.com. On the main Yahoo site, blogs.yahoo.com as well as blog.yahoo.com both are active though they take you to yahoo groups interface."
God Bless America, with the worst crime levels in the first world
God Bless America, where "democracy" means a rich, white male as Presiden t
God Bless America, the biggest consumer of the world's natural resources
God Bless America, where "freedom of speech" means race-hate groups like KKK
God Bless America, and its massive and ever-growing poverty gap
God Bless America, with the highest obesity levels in the developed world
God Bless America, all its appalling "sitcoms" with no grasp of irony
God Bless America, because corporations should be allowed to run amok
God Bless America, wasting billions to attack foreign countries
God Bless America, and thank God I don't have to live there.
What a total non story for this Monday morning.
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
The irony is palpable.
Curb CO2 emissions: Kill yourself today!
- Liberating poor countries from their oil is cool. It makes citizens with a low self-esteem feel like THEY PERSONALLY rule the world.
- Firing a few hundred missiles from a safe distance is very heroic.
- All of the soldiers who killed their own comrades and allies were heroes.
- That blonde chick who failed her mission because she was too dumb to find her way is definitely a hero.
- You don't need to be worth something to be accepted. You just need to wave a flag and shout "God bless America!"
- Every failure can be a hero in Bush's America!
- Seeing Dubya in a flight suit on board a carrier makes republicans shoot their load in seconds!
And as long as all of the above is true, the lies will go on.Now what would be cool is if they could intergrate Yahoo IM so you could blog from your IM window. OF course just being careful that your talk with FitGirl 18/f/US (who is actually FatBloke 37/m/US) isn;t automatically logged :)
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I would be interested in knowing which was the first blog system site ever created. My guess would be LiveJournal.com but I won't be sure. Does someone has a clue?
--- Bouh !!! ---
Another place for people no one cares about to post rants no one will ever read. Isn't there enough of this on the net already?
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NSFWThe story on slashdot was longer than the story it linked to.
I've always thought the word "Blog" sounded like something you heaved up...
::sound of blog hitting ground::
"Whats wrong with Bill today, is he sick?"
"Yeah, he's at home, blogging up his guts."
"Oh, I hate it when I blog."
or
"OH MY GOD PULL OVER I AM GOING TO BLOG!!"
"BLOG!! BLOG BLOG!!! ugh, I dont feel well..."
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
Blogs yahoo you
Yahoo Korea looks like a lot more fun than regular yahoo. It all ani-ma-fa-kated.
There's something about a blog that is entirely created and maintained by the blogger. I mean, would any of us really read wil wheaton's site if he just kept it at yahoo?
Nothing against yahoo or anything. It's great for people who don't have the resources or knowledge to maintain such a thing, but I doubt I'll be perusing the blogs on yahoo any time soon. Would you?
t.
Remember: patience is a virtue.
Spent all day reading slashdot again. I posted a comment and it never even got any points. Fark had an awesome story about a guy doing something dumb. I finally have my very own blog so I can share my thoughts with the world.
August 26, 2003
Spent all day reading slashdot again. That Microsoft Sux.
August 27, 2003
Spent all day reading slashdot again. I hate SCO, they suck.
August 28, 2003
Spent all day reading slashdot again. Just upgraded to Windows XP. It sucks.
When will you people realize that BLOGS are totally useless wastes of electrons? Self serving, "look at Me" crap. Blogs are Not news! Explodeing Blogs, possibly. Blogs are time wasters, resource wasters and a direct incicator of the Blogger's mental abilities.
I continue to fail to understand how, as even a medium term prospect, Yahoo could be seen to be worth anything at all to any investor.
This is just another addition to the idea "I want to be reachable everywhere and I want to let everyone know how interesting I am".
;)
Most people just don't see the point of how this makes them less interesting.
That said, let's make another entry in my journal
I don't really see this doing anything to the blog world. If aol did one (or partnered with someone) It could be really usefull. Let it replace buddy profiles, have a little button on AIM to post a blog, Have a read my blog button in an AIM window. Hold the blogs at central server, but serve them locally (the only person who would hit there server would be the user, everyone else would read the blog off of the users computer, like the profiles are now). Im not really saying this will be usefull in anyway to the internet at large, but I't would let let blogs grow.
BLOGS ARE LAME
Who wants to read some dumbass's random thoughts.
Because that results in bloatware. Does everyone want the Microsoft Personal Webserver, the Character Map, Clipboard viewer and... o_0 ... MSN explorer... *Is off to clear his so called OS components*
[/Offtopic Anti-MS rant]
So... Sven will this be available?
The article neglected to include the permalink to the story.
On a related tangent, how long before our schools start teaching kids how to write in hypertext? I would love for MLA to cover rules like "the linked resource should be relevant to the words that are used to link to it," "never include punctuation in hyperlinks," or "you will die a fiery death if you link the word 'here' to a resource."
Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
Thought not. Better (less ad-infested) services can be found with competitors. They've stamped the only jewel in their crown, eGroups (now Yahoo! Groups) right into the ground - people only use it now because it's such a pain to migrate a mailing list elsewahere. If this blogging service is as bad as Yahoo! Groups is now, I can't see it taking off (I personally, will be sticking with my Slashdot Journal).
God, blogs are annoying. Buy a fucking mirror.
Suppose Yahoo starts hosting blogs.
In three months, it will become popular.
In four months, it will become popular with "adults."
In five months, Yahoo Blogs will become a premiere conduit for erotic content.
In six months, Yahoo Blogs will force the reader to view a full screen ad before reading content
In seven months, Yahoo Blogs will start imposing bandwidth caps.
In eight months, readers of such blogs will be denied access to archives.
Yahoo Journal comes out I bet :)
You hit the proverbial nail, right on the head. Now, will you please use the hammer on the submitter of this story? Failing that, on anyone who would post such drivel, anywhere.
Information is not knowledge,
knowledge is not wisdom,
wisdom is not truth,
truth is not beauty,
beauty is not love,
love is not music,
music is the best..."
- Frank Zappa (the girl from the bus).
A low UId and you've got nothing better to do than come here and let us all know that you don't think this is a story?
All hail joo, baby.
Oh, and prices jumped because Teh Oil Industry ownz joo.
I know the sys admin for yahoo, they've been working on a blog system since early this year. As with everything yahoo does, Korea is where they test it.
Korea is actually thier biggest money maker too, there is a avatar system that they have access to and people pay to buy virtual clothes and other such things for their own personal avatar. They make a fortune out of it, it's crazy.
But yeah... yahoo is definitely get a blog system.
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
Great, now I'm going to have to ignore a few thousand more blogs about how teenagers hate their parents and shut-ins hate society.
It's not stupid. It's advanced.
gosh, windows is bloated you say
why not add some comments to your slashdot journal about which options you removed, I'm sure we'd all be fascinated.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Having the resources or knowledge to maintain a blog does not make what you have to write in the blog any more worth reading than what the Yahoo-ites have to say. Sadly, many of the technically-savvy have failed to realize this.
The truth of the matter is, if what you say is worth reading on a regular, or even daily basis, someone will step in and provide you with the resources to maintain your blog, thereby freeing you up to focus on your writing. These resource-providers are called publishers. Whether or not the blog-writer has a publisher is a good litmus test for whether I will devote any of my time reading what he writes.
As for keeping up with friends' activities: we use the telephone. Terribly Old School that way.
It's like graphic design. The personal computer programs that have made it cheap and easy for someone to do the *work* of a designer do not magically transform everyone *into* a designer.
Blogs experiment on YOU!!!!
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Too many blogs. I'll stick to livejournal, TYVM. At least it's relatively ad-free and I can get RSS feeds and export my journal.
Yes with a probability of 0.5 No with a probability of 0.5
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
My roommate has a Photo Journal on his web site. While some days are really cool, and he is a really talented amature photographer, most days consist on what he ate for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.
I generally use it to figure out what I was doing on a particular day. His girlfriend gets a bit embarrased - she must feel like a rock star at times.
I'm wondering if in the long run this is work Yahoo's time and money. If it is cheap to implement, then why not.
Not trying to create flamebait, but honestly, what use is...
Dear Blog (July 25): Just read an article on Yahoo about the guy with no feet who is walking cross county on his hands to raise money for kids born without ear lobes. Isn't that uplifting???
Dear Blog (July 25) I love my new iMac, it's just so yummy and friendly, not like the evil Micro$oft Winblows. Yuck!
Dear Blog (July 26): I hate that darn Marsha Brady, she's just so perfect!!!
Dear Blog (July 29): I just read an article on Yahoo about world politics, what follows are my 3.5 pages of unfocussed rant, aren't I smart world?
Dear Blog (July 30): Why won't he notice me damnit? Well, he'll notice when his cat disappears, the PETA website says we should free all the domestically enslaved house pets anyway. Here goes nothing?
Dear Blog (July 31): Mom took me to the doctor today, they say the Lithium will take the edge off, but I am not sure what that means. Think I will take a nap now......
Who F ing cares, personal Blogs are 99% attention whoring. And there's plenty of chat rooms, message boards and newsgroups for that purpose, just use this post as an example.
If no one has patented blogging, it's not too late as many previous patent suits have shown us!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Wow! I use yahoo for a certain amount of anonymity, and am still surprised how they get hold of all the addresses to spam them. :)
Now I'll have the opportunity to provide even more info about my perversi..., er I mean interests, political and otherwise - yeah, that's what I meant
> (I personally, will be sticking with my Slashdot Journal).
dude, I just looked up your, er, our journal: we ain't there, cowboy. in fact, we don't even think I exist!
and yet...
Some of them may expect you to read their blogs?
On a regular basis?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
They wouldn't stay friends very long.
Every 90 seconds, somewhere in the world, a woman is gving birth.
She must be found, and stopped.
In high school I went to a SciFi convention and they served Blog in the Con Suite.
It was a mixture of vodka, grenadine, and some juices. It tasted pretty good, especially when I was 17.
You kept them through the awful chain-letter era, what's going to change now?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
- First 10+ "new accounts a day" : 1999-11-08.
- First 100+ "new accounts a day" : 2000-06-12
- First 1000+ "new accounts a day" : 2001-04-16
It's very subjective to say when this site took off.--- Bouh !!! ---
Well actually, I deleted the chain letters and visited their houses with a sack of doorknobs.
Every 90 seconds, somewhere in the world, a woman is gving birth.
She must be found, and stopped.
I still get plenty of the regular old fashioned English language spam.
I was always confused by the concept of a blog. Here's a few reasons I can think to use a blog, and why each one sucks.
1. Personal diary. Since it's public, you probably shouldn't put anything "diary worthy" in it. Also, years from now you can still pick up your paper diary and read it, think all these blog sites will still be around?
2. Updates to family and friends. OK, I can almost buy this, but really do we need to put up another barrier between those we love? I would rather tell my parents news on the phone, than tell them to go read my blog. Also, not everyone you know/love knows how to get to it.
3. "Making your mark on the world / etc". No one cares what you have to say, and no one probably reads it. If you have something worthy to say, make a real website, or find a position in the world where people will be able to hear what you have to say.
My biggest problem with though, is #1. I fear that the tech boom will hurt us big time in about 20 years when we realize all our digital videos, pictures, blog entries, etc have disappeared and we have no paper record of our lives. I am looking at it from a purely personal-records point of view, but it affects society on a much higher level as well.
no comment
Will never go back to or read Fark, brain dead retards suck.
does anyone else see a problem here?
I block most Korean sites, to much spam.
second thought: may be this is good, put all blogs
in korea and block it.
And of course, it's in Korean ;)
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If you want some of the scoop on what Yahoo is up to, you should probably be reading Jeremy Zawodny's blog, for example:
:)
* Y! Blogs releases in Korea
* Y! Unix messenger group begun
* Y! Search group begun
And other goodies
All weakness is within you, As is all courage.
America may have some faults but in general it really is the best model for a true welfare state.
Well hmm what happened earlier this year?
.. they should try and keep doing their thing instead of copying Google. Google is a wonderful salad bowl search engine .. but well .. their categorization of things into easy categories has somethingn to be desired. I've alwasy gone to yahoo for stuff when i didn't exactly know what the site was but I wanted to find it by driling down in categories. Yahoo has always been good for that.
Google bought blogger.com or something like that, the biggest of the Blog hosting sites/engines.
So in Yahoo's scramble.. to figure out why they're loosing to google, they're gonna start blogs too.
Personally i think Yahoo has always had a lot going for them
oh well maybe they'll figure out what their looking for some day.
Who makes you Sig?
Blogs can serve a purpose..
Some people on here are just ranting about how the personal experiences, or "dear diary" type of blogs are just flooding the internet, and are completely devoid of any interesting, or entertaining thought. Well, that may be true.. and I'm sure Yahoo! blogs will foster this kind of thing even more (because of easy access, and a large user base), but there are certain blogs out there that are useful, and serve a purpose.
Take my blog for instance (no I'm not linking it..). I created it by using one of those bloggin' apps (pmachine I think..), created my own stylesheet, etc.. So for 1 it looks original. But aside from that, I use it as a way to communicate to my friends and family. I'm away from home (toronto) for the next several months on business in Costa Rica. I don't get to call home that much, and writing emails is tedious to 20+ people, so I update my blog on a daily (heh, okay a few times a week) basis. They reply to me in comments, and it's working out quite well.
So who says they can't be useful?
- Topic icons and preferably custom. I love topic icons!
- Friends like in here, along with new journal notifications. Communities are nice too (like in LiveJournal) but I'm not used to them.
- Erase comments of annoying people and ban them too, and block anonymous posters. Slashdot kinda lacks in that.
- Embedding pictures in the blog and preferably allowing to upload them on the same server too.
- Lists that can appear on the side of the blog.
- Marital status, searchable. Blogs can be a great dating service too!
What do you think? Will they enable those things?Slashdot community, please notice: I am looking for a girlfriend.
Nave H. Weiss
How many people here think that blogs just sounds like its an bloated piece of shit that isn't going anywhere? When I see blogs, I always think of obesity.
Why can't there be more sites that use journal like livejournal.com or Slashdot's own journal system?
Journal sounds more elegant....
anybody else think so too?
Bush is on fire and its not good for my lungs.
LiveJournal predates the term 'blog', which is one reason why it's called "LiveJournal" and not "LiveBlog". Back when Brad Fitzpatrick was writing what would later become LiveJournal, I was writing something similar. Both were simple systems for personal use to automate the production of these kinds of sites, but Brad later modified his so that his friends could use it too. I'm now a LiveJournal developer, and my own software hasn't been touched in years :)
I think the main reason LiveJournal works as well as it does is that it was designed so that the users are all integrated with each other, unlike Blogger where each weblog is essentially distinct. Most people who keep journals at LiveJournal also read journals, so there's a nice mesh of reading and writing which keeps the thing going without anyone needing to be "famous".
The "six degrees of separation" thing has been proven to hold for LiveJournal.com's users who have at least a few "friends". You can try for yourself, even.
slow day.
Check out http://kr.avatar.yahoo.com/ - Yahoo Avatars! Too bad my Korean's not so hot.
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Code / Think / Teach / Learn
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AOL Journals is either in beta or already launched. And you can post by AIM.
Americans Hero Mayor Giulliani had one of the biggest "lock up the homeless" programs in ... well ever probably. What you're describing is as American as apple pie. Actually throwing homeless people in prison so they don't get in the way of rich people is a system pioneered by America. Oh yes something else to be proud of!
They cut back welfare and section 8 at the same time that they criminilize homelessness.
And people wonder why America has the most prisoners per capita of any country on Earth.
Google has been a main proponent of the open directory initiative for quite some time now;
http://directory.google.com/
Have you given that a try ?
Yes, the translation leaves a lot to be desired.
Still it's a lot better than nothing.
In addition though to being a blog hosting site you can setup your own groups with normal Yahoo Groups like features but also give you the power to do just about any type of contest from:
Sorry for the plug but it is football pool time again so create a blog and an office pool in one swoop. All written using Open Source of course
Looks to me like they're using blogs as an extension of Online Personals. A lot of people actually create these blogs as an outlet and hope to meet similar minds through it. Even if you take Friendster as an example, it's more interactive than, say, match.com. The problem with friendster is that it's still pretty static. Users don't use it to give a personal glimpse into their world - the way that a blog does.
Look here and say no more.
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My biggest problem with though, is #1. I fear that the tech boom will hurt us big time in about 20 years when we realize all our digital videos, pictures, blog entries, etc have disappeared and we have no paper record of our lives.
Very good point; I make a point of keeping stuff that's important to me on paper, and one of these days I plan to get some of my digital photos printed. On the flip side, though, we don't need everything about us recorded on permanent media; I see the blog as a good medium for temporary comments, random musings, and the like. (In this sense, it approaches your #2, but I'd point out that, unless you're very friend-deprived or you don't have a job, using the telephone exclusively can be prohibitively time-consuming. Again, I'd look at it in degrees: I like using the telephone myself, but for quick questions, time confirmations and the like, E-mail serves at least as well. I don't keep a blog, but if I did I'd probably only use it for things like "look at the pretty pictures my new camera takes" or "here's a cute animation I found".)
I dont see an upside...
Oh wait I dont have any friends.
Oh well.
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