Every few months, bloggers run through a cycle of trying to describe blogs. Personally, I'm less interested in what they are and more in what they allow me to do. Here are a few links of the current discussion: blogging as conversations, social infrastructure, blogging as the proverbial elephant, and comments (I particularly related to Stephen's comments: "The third thing I'm looking for I can't really describe. It's like trying to find the feel of the net. I style myself as being like an Idoru, as Gibson says, an intuitive perceiver of patterns. It's like finding a wave, a current (or usually, an undercurrent). And still - it has to fit into one of my themes, and not merely be an eddy or undertow.")
Posted by gsiemens at March 9, 2004 5:40 PM