What’s the big deal about blogs? Haydn rang me this morning because he’s doing research on blogs and I remembered Joseph mentioned this video on IRC. This is a reminder from the Common Craft folk that not everyone knows what a blog is, or why they’re a great communication tool.
If you’re reading this and thinking about setting up your own website, watch this short three minute video and you may well decide to start a blog. Nice to see WordPress.com get a mention too!
Donncha Ó Caoimh is a software developer at Automattic and WordPress plugin developer. He posts photos at In Photos and can also be found on Google+ and Twitter.
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20 replies on “Blogs in Plain English”
Hi thanks for this 😉
but at Germany it will come the end of free comments 🙁
Hamburger court of law have said: a blogger has to moderate every comment before he publish them! Or this blogger is full liable for the content of a comment.
To delete a bad comment after publishing is not enough.
There are so many laws from the past, and nobody would like to modify them because goverments fear blogger ..
kindly regards
Monika
“What is a blog” – In Plain English
Stumbled across a neat video,
explaining what a blog is and what the big deal is about them these days. It’s a really good video, too – it does a really good job of explaining (to the non-technical enthusiast audience) why blogs are so popular (…
This is a great video to show my friends who have no idea what I’m doing:)
Blogging is the fun part of my day – doesn’t say much for the rest of my life.
Perfect explanation of how it all works! You care to have a spanish version? hehe tks!
That’s too bad, Monika. I suppose in the U.S. we often take for granted the freedoms we have. I hope we never have the kind of regulation you and fellow bloggers are suffering in Germany. No doubt, there will come a day when “rogue” bloggers will represent the last bastions of freedom on the planet.
This video is so cool. I’ll link to it.
Hi there,
Unless some really important chunk of news went unnoticed, Monikas comment is a little too dramatic. Last time i checked, the law was:
You are only liable for the content of a comment, if someone told you “hey, this guy is posting lies / nazi-propaganda / child-porn / whatever” – and you fail to react in something like seven days.
There is no regulation on blogging that affects freedom of blogging (as long as you don’t post one of the above mentioned).
That’s a very good and informative video.
Wow! IRC is still used!? I thought everyone used Jaiku/Twitter, Gmail/Windows Live and Facebook/Bebo to talk to each other!
Nice video. A must see to anyone who would like to join the blogosphere.
Well, We are liable for content on our sites or pages, even Guestbooks for that matter.
Darran – I’m old school I guess! I spend more time on IRC each day with work colleagues and on #linux than on any social networking site.
That does not sound like a nice law! What about if there’s a bug in the blogging platform and a spammer gets his comment published without moderation..
Hi,really a good video for beginners.
thank you for this one.
Hi Donnacha, a bit like preaching to the converted here? Interesting little snippet though, I’d like to know the demographic for the 70million blogs!
Cheers Tim
That’s a really clear, concise video that gives basic information without being patronizing. In other words, awesome and useful! Thank you so much for passing it along.
Claudius: Thanks for the clarification.
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I find that blogging makes me really look at what goes on around me. Even if it’s just in regards to “Will this make a good blog topic” I have fun doing it.