On 2005-07-10 19:37:56 -0500, Larry said:

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- tim, sailblogs sysadmin


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?
Anyone posting here, uncensored as it is, gets worldwide coverage and
forever Google storage of every article.
I can see a blog if the blogger is some kind of news source. I read
several. But blogs like this look more like browser-based, censored
forums. Why not just post here?

It's not exactly apples for apples. Yes, in both cases you're posting a
note to the world for all to read, but with a blog you're sort of in
control of the whole space. It's a personal web page, really. It allows
you to orgainze and present your view of the world, and in the case of
sailblogs thats generally from the helm of a sailboat.

You can have your collection of photos, links, along with, and choose a
color scheme that suits you. The audience is not necessarily the whole
world, or all people that read the newsgroups. You can choose only to
give the URL to people whome you wish to keep informed of your
progress. You can even go so far as to lock your journal from visitors
with a password. You can choose to accept comments from visitors or
not, something you'd not be able to do here.

I also have people setting up blogs to put in information from cruising
that happened two or three years ago. They've taken time to organize
their notes and photos and putting it together with the blog system
makes for a nice package to tell/share their story. So while you can
get old posts from google, its not quite as simple to find all the
stories by one particular person as it would be just to read their
journal.

A good example is this: http://www.sailblogs.com/member/symphony/

No, it's not me and I don't make extra money by driving traffic to it.
It's an example of a good journal documenting a Great Lakes cruise from
duluth to the carribbean.

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tim