<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061660</id><updated>2011-04-21T16:37:25.264-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Consider the Blog</title><subtitle type='html'>What's that you say? You want to delve into the cultural and technological implications of the web log? Well, we've got you covered, friend!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://considertheblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6061660/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://considertheblog.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Students of</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03493956684507667641</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6061660.post-106860621906794098</id><published>2003-11-11T19:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-12-05T12:30:22.700-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.userland.com/whatAreWeblogs" target="_blank"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt; - [n] public online chronological list of links to web sites and topics, with personal observations. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just to start things off smoothly, let's go over the term "blog". Simply put, "blog" is merely an acronym for "web log", implying its function as an online journal or traveler's log. Mind you, online diaries have existed long before the advent of &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com" target="_blank"&gt;blogger&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.livejournal.com" target="_blank"&gt;livejournal&lt;/a&gt;, but somehow these establishments have launched personal web writing off obscure homepages (damn you, Geocities!) and into a massive network of interlinked, text-heavy journals, complete with dated and archived entries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6061660-106860621906794098?l=considertheblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6061660/posts/default/106860621906794098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6061660/posts/default/106860621906794098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://considertheblog.blogspot.com/2003_11_01_archive.html#106860621906794098' title=''/><author><name>Students of</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03493956684507667641</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
