I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.
I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
A lot of people don't like to spend money on a journal because they're afraid to wreck it, which is understandable. I buy beautifully made leather-bound journals because I have lost my fear of the blank page.
I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.
I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.
Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way.
When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality?
Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'
I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.