This is a blog. Blogs are usually one person’s posts, thoughts and comments, usually presented chronologically.
A blog is NOT an online forum system, or a commenting system on news articles. Somehow, many folks have gotten confused about just what a blog is — and isn’t.
Our daily paper has a front page story about how the city of Bend is going to try out an online forum. The word they picked for the “jump” header? Blog.
I guess we’re all looking for short, punchy shorthand to describe and categorize stuff. But right is right, and wrong is wrong, and bloggers know that much of what is called blogs these days are NOT a blog.
That said, I wish the city all the luck in the world in trying to get some useful info out of folks in a forum structure, and keep the rabble-rousers to background. It’s a challenge, as I know from our very lively comment system at KTVZ.COM and other experiences over the decades.
But people who post comments there WON’T be blogging, or posting blogs. Let’s try to call it what it is.
Leave it to Barney 