on 06.06.2000 10:05pm, Leslie S Pearson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The Juno home page until now had a link to some site that claimed to have
> 89,000 diaries. I didn't get a change to check it out and now it is gone
> - can anyone find it?
>
well, there's
<http://www.diaryland.com>
<http://www.pitas.com>
<http://www.blogger.com>
<http://www.scribble.nu>,
all of which offer weblog/diary publishing tools and from whose homepages
you can browse member publications.
but i'd wager dollars to doughnuts that the link on juno's homepage used to
point to
<http://www.weblogs.com>,
which has, i think, been around longer than all of the others and is rather
comprehensive. it was put together by the <userland> people who were
pushing weblogs/diaries long before <blogger> was a dream in somebody's eye.
is there a difference between a weblog and a diary? technically, yes. the
original, old-fashioned weblogs were mainly collections of links, sometimes
with commentary, to cool or unusual sites on the web.
but with the recent explosion in popularity of personal sites, many of which
people like to update regularly with personal news and/or 'web sightings,'
weblogs and diaries have practically merged. so the distinction is merely
academic.
-martin
