“That’s all I have to tell you…that’s all I’ve got to say.”
—The Last Unicorn
So, Chris, you might be wondering, you’ve already got a livejournal that you barely keep up with as it is…why do you need a blog, too?
The answer to that is two-fold. First of all, because I can…I have my own domain, so now I can host it with FTP without having to jump through hoops like having a GeoSh—I mean GeoCities account or having to go with blogspot.com (which I’m sure is very nice, but I like the control having my own webspace affords me).
Second, you don’t hear about livejournaling causing a journalistic and political revolution. There seems to be a distinction among web readers that livejournals are just that: journals of lives, “dear diarists” formed into a community—but blogs are more serious, journalistic endeavors that can topple dynasties and so forth. Of course, I’m sure there are a lot of people out there who use their blogs as little more than diaries, though I don’t think I’ve ever seen a journalistic (in the “news reporting” sense of the word) livejournal. Still, Drudge doesn’t run a livejournal, and you didn’t see livejournals from news reporters in Iraq…
Anyway, since I can, and I’m already a member of the free service, I’ve decided to start a weblog over here, that I will use for essays, editorials, reviews, and so on, thus reserving my livejournal for recording my day-to-day life. I’d just like to get one thing straight, though: I cordially despise the term “blog”—it sounds like the noise one makes while throwing up—and I don’t find “weblog” to be all that much better. This is a journal, darnit! Not a “live” one, but one where I can chronicle my thoughts and ideas. The only reason I use the term “blog” at all in this writeup is that I rather have to—it’s fallen into common usage and everyone knows what it means; it’s even part of the name of the service I’m using to record the thing.
But I’ll be darned if it shows up anywhere in the URL for the thing…
Dear Chrissy,
I don’t know what a blog is, I don’t know what my user name is, and I don’t have a password. What should I do?
Love,
Anonymous
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