Apparently Associated Press has launched a service called Bad Language which claims to be a blog but isn’t. Nothing to do with me and launched after I launched this site, although I’m sure that’s just a coincidence. What is interesting is the number of people who think that they can call something a blog when they clearly aren’t blogs.
I’m quite new to this blogging thing, but it seems to me that a blog has to meet a few criteria to qualify:
- Regular updates
- Written by an individual, not a committee
- Open to comments and feedback
- Linked into the blogosphere
- Provide RSS-style syndication
- Free to readers
- Follow blogging user interface conventions
I’m not such a purist or idealist that I believe that blogs aren’t for companies, but corporate blogs need to fit the model too. Just slapping the label ‘blog’ on something that isn’t feels silly, misleading and naughty.
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