Let us dive into some history of blogging before I define all new 'Digest' Blogging.
According to wikipedia "A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog."
What a creepy definition, heh??
According to Dex, We blog, when we do not have any work, or want to speak out cos' none listens us, wanna spit lot of hatred about politicians, losing-Indian-cricket-team, to show off your writing talent, to brag about how cool you are, to earn money, etc.
Blogging has contributed to major part of Web2.0 too. Web2.0 is a phenomena that involves our very own social networking, collaborating and so on. Twitter changed the way one used to think about blogging. Twitter brought us 'Micro-blogging'[wiki:a form of multimedia blogging that allows users to send brief text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them].
Summarizing, macro blogging => eg: Blogspot, wordspress. micro-blogging => twitter
Lets start off. I came up with this weird idea of Digest Blogging from the cribbing of my Lead. He was really angered over the way google results are liquidating with the blogs and forums having same questions and queries. If we take into account, every search page will have 20-40% blog results. So what I am trying to say here is that we end users, consumers blog and tweet so much worthless stuff that in turn makes web a mess. I do not say that blogs are totally useless and we should stop creating this digital mess. But what I am trying to portray here is way too much of content for anyone.
Thats the reason we have the new Digest Blogging. Put in simple form: Digest Blogging is a form of blogging that will summarize all the happenings/news/blog you wanted to write/etc in one single Blog post.
Digest blogging is more than one micro-blogs in single blog entry. In micro blogs we simply update our status or provide some links and feeds. This form of blogging does not require any new technology or stuff. Its just an extension of your 'normal blogging'. With digest way one can provide much better preview of what they want to say. I have seen on twitter that many news sites use APIs to post more than 5-10 feeds to twitter . Instead they can use digest blogging and provide one feed. Makes life simple. isn't it?
Various reasons why we should do digest blogging:
- Provide a Digest Blog along with links to the articles to your readers summarizing the entries which are easier to read.
- Digest Blogging can let you write a digest combining various sources of information that you want. Say write on technology, politics, bikes all in one.
- Link the web. Yes. One can provide links and references to the popular / similar posts which helps more than re-writing same thing. Do a google blog search you will find lot of posts here.
- Folks having personal blog can indeed have a digest blog. I read my friends and colleagues blog once in a week. So to keep friends update digest blog with entire week stuff, digest blog can help.
- Start a weekly news kind of stuff. Like our weekly magazines. I have not come across weekly mags kind of stuff on net.
---------------------
Keep checking this space for updates on 'digest blogging'.
---------------------
0 comments:
Post a Comment