On 2005-07-11 00:05:07 -0500, Jere Lull said:

In article , Larry wrote:

I'm still confused. What does the blog do that this newsgroup doesn't
do, other than the obvious content control you exercise over its posts?

It's quite different, being primarily one author's ideas and others'
comments. Sometimes, the comments are suppressed and go only to the
author.

In many respects, it can be a multi-media journal that doesn't require
the author to hand-code web pages. It's pretty cookie-cutter, but
that's sufficient for this sort of thing.

Though I don't know about Sailblogs, often a blog can be updated from a
simple desktop executable, so July 10th's remarks can retain that date
& time until the author can actually upload the individual entries.

This is a pretty good description. With SB, you can control the dates
of every entry which allows you to build a journal of something that
happened in the past, or post-date messages, too. You as a blog owner
can decide to allow visitors to comment on your posts.

I've been working on a desktop app to go along with it. For the other
system, XJournal, I created a widget that works with a program called
Konfabulator on Mac and Windows. I'm also looking at making a widget
for OSX Tiger.

As for those who choose to use the blog system, the basic seneario
could be something like this:

- They have made the choice to go cruising and are leaving their "regular" life
- They want to stay connected to their family and friends
- They want a single place to post their experiences, show a map of
where they've been, and display photos from their trip
- They want to keep a record of their travels for their own satisfaction
- and thay want to share their adventure with anyone else who cares

If one were to post a daily travel journal here, for example, some
might be interested in what you're doing, some might think you're an
idiot and some might wish you'd stop. You're kind of forcing the
journal on an audience. With a blog, those that are interested can come
to your space to read the journal, which those that are not interested
can ignore it.

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tim