Can someone explain to me what is so special about a “blog”?? Maybe I’m missing something but every blog I’ve seen looks just like any other website with way too much stuff on the page. What is it that’s supposed to differentiate a “blog” from a “website”? And if there’s no real difference, why not just call it a website??
Basicly its a soapbox, actual factual content milage varies with each model. Quite frankly I really dont have that much interesting to bag on and on about like some bloggers do. No one wants to hear me gripe about the terrible state of movies this summer or how sci fi cimena is dying a slow painfull death by mediocrity, so I shut up and dont have a blog
Blogs? We don’t need no stinkin blogs!
We have LSC.
Blogs come in many forms. Everything from an online “diary”, to online “soapboxes”, as Vic stated.
Ralph
Ray -
It’s a format more than anything. Free form, run-on dialog sometimes scrolling 5 or more screens worth. Not my idea of a good layout, but what do I know. Just another old fart.
Never even looked at a blog.
Life’s too short to be stuck at a monitor reading crap.
LSC is enough of a blog for me.
Another really old geezer.
Blog is short for a “Weblog” more of a format style than an actual layout…sorta like calling any cola a “coke”…
hey hey hey, COKE is the ““real thing””, everything else is a copy…
It’s the software, and the intent
A web page is/was usually static content that can only be updated by editing the actual file. Web pages are usually imagined as semi-permanent, and they get changed relatively rarely. Typically you needed to know HTML Or have a HTML editor to make a web page. It’s less true now than it was.
A blog is intended to be like an online diary. The owner sets up the blog and then can update it simply by typing text and pressing “submit.” Blogs are for daily or even hourly changes, and rather that being flat, static pages they are generated by a database. They usually have search functions built in and can also allow commenting, and they require pretty much zero technical knowledge to post to
Hey, we need blogs, peat blog is necessary for single malt scotch, for crying out loud!
sheesh, I have to think of everything here!
Greg
Greg, I think the Single Malt has you a little BOGged down this evening 
mike omalley said:
It's the software, and the intentA web page is/was usually static content that can only be updated by editing the actual file. Web pages are usually imagined as semi-permanent, and they get changed relatively rarely. Typically you needed to know HTML Or have a HTML editor to make a web page. It’s less true now than it was.
A blog is intended to be like an online diary. The owner sets up the blog and then can update it simply by typing text and pressing “submit.” Blogs are for daily or even hourly changes, and rather that being flat, static pages they are generated by a database. They usually have search functions built in and can also allow commenting, and they require pretty much zero technical knowledge to post to
Ah, I see. Thanks!
I use mine to keep track of projects and stuff … post photos of what I’m building, people who visit, etc… stuff that will update semiperiodically. It’ll also be a “behind the scenes” kind of approach.
When the railroad is more … complete (though finished won’t ever happen!) I’ll have a website that’s more for static viewing… engines, territory, “history” … designed to be more or less a finished work that’s updated … well, when it needs to be or something big changes, but it’s more or less WYSIWYG… and will treat the railroad like a “real” railroad.
The blog lets me add something quickly and not worry about it being as polished as a website would be either.
Oh, and the link … http://slatecreekrailway.blogspot.com
Matthew (OV)