The Scoop on Bloggercon III

Trizor writes "Bloggercon III commenced today with the opening session ending in a singalong of 'This land is your land'. The sessions ranged from introductions on blogging to a comparison of bloggers and journalists. The developers at O'Reilly have provided notes, coverage, and commentary on the event."

Comments

Re:Is Slashdot a "blog"?

[Altima(BoB)]

Maybe, but no one reads the journals apart from $$$$$exyGal's. :)

More seriously, I think the thing about calling /. a blog site because of journals is a bit misleading. For instance, LiveJournal is not a blog site, it's a business that provides users with blog pages. An individual's account page qualifies as a blog site, LiveJournal itself doesn't. /. is a news site, its journals can be blogs.

Re:Is Slashdot a "blog"?

[Otter]

For starters, it's been around long before the term "blog" was coined.

I don't claim any authoritative research on this topic but -- my recollection is that when the word "weblog" emerged to describe a site with continuously updated front page content, Slashdot was one of the protypical examples given. As the word evolved to "blog", it became associated with narcissists jabbering about their cats or linking to links to links about wildly partisan political content, which I think is the way you interpret the word.

Certainly the site predates the word, but the early weblog software creators were strongly inluenced by Slashdot's format.