Web 2.0 - blogging
What is the difference between personal websites and webblogging? Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0. Personal Websites were/are a way for people to share information about themselves, their lives, their experiences, or anything else they might feel the need to express.
However, with Web 2.0 comes the ability to create weblogs, a new way for people to write about their lives (or other topics if they so choose) in a more journal-style manner. With this new ability comes the possibility of interaction between author and reader, though. Many weblogs allow readers to post responses to a thread in a blog, which can spark virtual conversations, offering people a new medium for communication not available to them in the past.
While weblogs seem to have their uses, it is a mystery to me why so many people seem to create blogs on which the sole focus is their lives. I don’t know about anybody else, but with the pace of life today, I barely have time to read the essential information related to my work, let alone why a friend/acquaintance does or does not like the number 13.
Again, I can see potential for weblogs created for a more effective purpose than personal musing, but that seems to be exactly what most blogs contain. What is it Dr. Gillette says? Oh yes…. “No generality is worth a damn, including this one.”