A definition of a blog, a blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently.
Now that we got that out of the way, I can continue. When most of us started to blog we did not really what a blog ment, there where some people that started using it as a webpage, and others regurgitated new posts from other web sites. I am guilty in the latter, but once I understood that a blog was ment to be, a journal of ones like and not a news site, blogging made more sense to me.
Now it is important that we use a blog for what it is ment for, or else it will spoil the scene for other people, for me personally I am tired of seeing new articles being regurgitated from sites like neowin.net and msfn.org, on dotnet.org.za. Dotnet.org.za is a blog not a place to steal news post from other sites and post it here, don’t get me wrong, the odd article from another site is fine, but there are a few members here that continuously repost other peoples articles here as there own. This must stop, if I want to read about the latest news, I will go to neowin.net or msfn.org and read the original article there. Dotnet.org.za is a blog mostly for developers, and when I come to this blog I am interested in what development work has been done by these developers and what interesting stuff has happened in there lives, I don’t what to reread something on dotnet.org.za that I have already read on neowin.
If you go the http://dotnet.org.za and you start reading though all the blogs, you will soon see that most of the content is with in lines of a blog, and in the development realm. There is only one or two people that don’t get what a blog is.
I know that some people might have hard feelings towards what I have written here, if so voice them in the comments, and we can see how things go from there.
Enjoy the rest of your day.