You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Someone needs to explain to the WHDH people about blogs.

The channel 7 weather page now includes a “Weather Blog.” With no permalink.  It’s okay to make your blog display only the single most recent entry.  It’s okay to make your blog (or constituent post from same) part of a larger page.

It is not. a. blog. if the post does not have a permalink to make it directly accessible for posterity.

All you’re doing then is borrowing “cool” nomenclature.  It’s just marketing.

When I can link directly to that commentary posted by one of the meteorologists, and have that same text be what appears when people follow the link, even months later, then you may call that component of the weather page a “blog.”

1. Right on.

   Posted by Steve Garfield  on  10/08  at  10:33 AM  from 

2. I have made the same argument.  At least my station’s weather blog is done with permalinks and individual entries.

   What really bugs me is when the news calls MySpace a blog.  It’s not.

   And what bugs me more is that MySpace calls an individual entry a “blog”, and some people (like author Laurell Hamilton) have picked up on the nomenclature.

   Posted by  on  10/09  at  07:41 AM  from 
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