Thanks for the input, but I think you are referring to a change in
technology brought about by time, not necessarily a defining characteristic
of either websites or blogs.
Content Management Systems have made life easier for all of us. Heck, one
doesn't even really have to know any programming languages to create or
maintain a website anymore. But a CMS neither defines a blog nor a website.
Either can be created and maintained with or without one.
I uses a template-based CMS at work and wouln't really call the end product
a blog, though it seems to fit the definitions I've come across.
-David
>From: Jen Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Claudio's figuring it out (was: Your oldest
>vlog entry)
>Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:30:00 -0400
>
> > Now all you have to do is define what a blog is.
> > Some would argue it is just another name for website.
> >
> > -David
>
>I wouldn't be one of those people.
>
>I started building websites in 1998. I started building blogs in 2002.
>There's a big difference between the way a static html-based site works
>and blogging technology (using some sort of third party software that
>creates pages for you and automatically archives, moving older content
>off the home page without being asked.)
>
>To me, the revolutionary thing about the invention of the blog is in
>the ease of the technology -- making it so very much easier to keep a
>site always changing, always current -- especially for those of us
>who've always built sites as a one-person team (not a huge site with a
>staff / with programmers there to write custom backend aps).... Of
>course it's always been technologically possible to update a website
>often using static html, but the human-power-reality of the amount of
>time it took to constantly post new pages by hand meant it didn't
>happen nearly as much as I wanted. I would have never dreamed seven
>years ago of updating as often as I do now, or of running as many sites
>as I do now, or of those sites being as large and as complicated as
>they are now. In the past, I was always stuck being the only person who
>had the tech-know-how to make any changes. Now I can build a blog into
>my client's page, teach them the interface, and let them be responsible
>for all the news and announcements -- leave me out of it!
>
>Blogs were definitely invented much later than html. And the invention
>has changed the way websites are made, and made it possible for many
>more people to be building websites.
>
>Now we just need the same kind of easy-of-use revolution for
>videoblogging...
>
>A blog is a kind of website, but not all websites are blogs. Just as
>the web is part of the internet, but just one part -- there's a lot
>going on (and has been for 40 years) on the internet, that has nothing
>to do with the wide world web (which is just over 10 years old).
>
>j
>
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