Name That Blog
February 26th, 2005In what was probably is one of the neatest reactions to the Gorman attack on bloggers Walt Crawford writes:
“Consider that most of what I make available for public consumption–publish, if you will, not including this blog lite–bypasses editorial control and traditional publishing, putting me pretty squarely in that ignorant semi-literate group of folks with nothing worthwhile to say.”
He’s thinking about starting a weblog (He’s thinking about it – it’s not definite) and he wants your help in naming it (He’s offering prizes):
“If I started up a real weblog (not just this blog lite), combining quick thoughts that might eventually turn into columns or C&I fodder, library-related (and policy-related and technology-related and media-related) stuff that would never make it into C&I, and some of the personal oddments hat come up, what should I call it?”
“Assume that it won’t have daily posts and won’t have loads’o'links, and that I’ll be as open to comments and “conversation” as possible (but forbid anonymous comments), while necessarily retaining the right to delete spam and viciousness.”
Walt and I had a funny conversation over drinks at ALA Midwinter. I said that Walt has a blog. He said that it was a journal. We kept on going back and forth, drink after drink. He settled on calling it a blog-lite, although I still don’t buy it. He has comments, permalinks, and an RSS Feed. It’s a blog. But I digress.
So, help Walt out and Name That Blog (and push him to pursue the possibilities).
