Soon, they'll all have them...

[tinyjo]

You know blogging's mainstream when the BBC are writing about it :) Is there a different word to describe the more diary like sites from the list o links type sites - they seem to come under the blanket heading of blogs these days.

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[oxfordslacker.livejournal.com]

At first I thought that he was taking a deliberately inclusive definition (I too would tend to call diary type things 'journals' and include both those and link type things under 'blogs') but then at the end of the article he says 'there are now more than 400' bloggers in the UK, so fuck knows what he was thinking of there. I mean www.bloggers.com has 13000, AFAICT. Could be a typo, I s'pose.

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's a good point - I hadn't spotted that. I don't think there's only 400 of any of the types of sites we've mentioned. It seems an odd figure to pull out of the air when it would have been just as easy to quote that stat from Blogger.

Ah-ha

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Scratch the above. I bet it comes from here - http://gblogs.threadnaught.net/ - 419 registered UK blogs. I guess the idea is to weed out those like us who aren't considered "serious" bloggers :)

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[oxfordslacker.livejournal.com]

This week's issue of NTK, one of my favourite blogs, leads with a (characteristically sarcastic/suspicious) article about 'The Bloggies'...