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Blog is short for web log. Blogging is the act of writing & updating a blog. To call Twitter a "blogging service" reveals naïveté.

#1 4:58pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone

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@stop doesn't that make it a perfect fit to be called a micro blog.

#2 4:59pm Jan 25th 2011 via web in reply to stop

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@stop Then why did it beat me in the 2007 blogging category at SXSW awards? :) (They call it micro-blogging.)

#3 4:59pm Jan 25th 2011 via web in reply to stop

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@snookca Blogging, or micro-blogging - both miss the point entirely.

#4 5:00pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to snookca

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@stop You've earned 1000 bonus points from the Oxford Dictionary for spelling "naïveté" with all bells and whistles!

#5 4:59pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to stop

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@twotribes Auto-correct had my back. I had to look it up to verify that it was correct. ;-)

#6 5:01pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to twotribes

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@stop It's on the web and you can use it as a log if you prefer. I love Twitter but from a semantic perspective the term seems applicable.

#7 5:04pm Jan 25th 2011 via Echofon in reply to stop

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Calling it blogging, micro-blogging, or even a tweeting service implies you need to publish to get value. This is no longer true.

#8 5:10pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone

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@stop But, isn't that value derived exclusively from content that is actually published via Twitter?

#9 5:13pm Jan 25th 2011 via HootSuite in reply to stop

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@tmsweet Yes! But not everyone needs to publish. It's fine just to consume. The pressure to write or share is too much for some folks.

#10 5:16pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to tmsweet

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@stop You're failing to distinguish between how Twitter might be accurately described and how marketing would prefer it be described.

#11 5:14pm Jan 25th 2011 via Echofon in reply to stop

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@iconmaster It's not a matter of marketing. It's how we see use naturally evolving. No need to fight it.

#12 5:19pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to iconmaster

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@stop It doesn't miss the point entirely. It's only part of the picture. Even a blog doesn't exist in a vacuum.

#13 5:16pm Jan 25th 2011 via Nambu in reply to stop

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@snookca Increasingly, people are not flocking to Twitter to tweet. So it does miss the point substantially to pigeonhole it as publishing.

#14 5:21pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to snookca

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@stop Both blogging and Twitter are strengthened by its community. Participation can be active or passive.

#15 5:16pm Jan 25th 2011 via Nambu in reply to stop

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@snookca Exactly. Labeling it as only one-sided (blogging, publishing) misses that point.

#16 5:22pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to snookca

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@stop Just to play devil's advocate...Wordpress is a blogging service, but you don't need to blog yourself to get value from a WP site

#18 5:18pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to stop

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@Bretton Bingo. So you wouldn't call the blog you're reading a blogging service, it's just a site you read, and get value that way.

#19 5:25pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to Bretton

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@stop (again, devil's advocating) In this case though, Twitter is both the service and the value-providing site. What do you call it?

#20 5:26pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to stop

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@stop but isn't twitter a log of your daily thoughts, actions and items of interest?

#21 5:19pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to stop

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@jhubert For you, yes. But what about the people who come to read your thoughts, without ever tweeting? To them, it's not publishing.

#22 5:26pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to jhubert

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@stop @jhubert I prefer the term "communication platform" myself.

#23 5:28pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to stop

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@stop Certainly Twitter has evolved to be more than the sum of its parts. But "microblogging" is still a useful handle for talking about it.

#24 5:22pm Jan 25th 2011 via Echofon in reply to stop

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@iconmaster My problem is that term (used in the media) is a smaller and part of the whole, and it paints an incorrect picture for non-users

#25 5:28pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to iconmaster

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@stop I really don't disagree. I'm just hesitant to divest words (however new and hackish) of their accepted meaning. It's both/and for me.

#26 5:32pm Jan 25th 2011 via Echofon in reply to stop

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@iconmaster @stop Why is Twitter trying to define Twitter rather than just building it?

#27 5:31pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to iconmaster

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@h3h @iconmaster We're not defining it - our users are. The media just hasn't caught up to how the service has evolved.

#28 5:40pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to h3h

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@stop Sure, but users will also describe it in ways you can't ordain. We have to classify Twitter as *something* as much as the media does.

#29 5:44pm Jan 25th 2011 via Echofon in reply to stop

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@stop It seems labeling in general is a problem on the web.

#30 5:25pm Jan 25th 2011 via TweetDeck in reply to stop

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@stop I disagree. Easily publishing your thoughts to the world on an ongoing basis? Tweeting is definitely blogging.

#31 5:28pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to stop

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@anildash @stop Twitter is microblogging, right? It's a kind of blogging. When did that become a controversial observation?

#32 5:29pm Jan 25th 2011 via web in reply to anildash

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@anildash True for folks like you & me. But to continue to call it that ignores the fact that more and more people get value sans publishing

#33 5:33pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to anildash

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@stop ignoring twitter's blogging legacy precludes the accretion of publishing value over time that's made many blog posts so meaningful.

#34 5:35pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to stop

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@anildash I'm not saying you ignore it. Just saying it's time for the media to stop pigeonholing it as a publishing service.

#35 5:38pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to anildash

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@stop That perception of pigeonholing may be present within Twitter, but on the outside "publishing" is not a big part of the Twitter story.

#36 5:39pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to stop

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@anildash It's enough of a story that the majority of folks we ask why they're not on Twitter respond with, "I don't have anything to say."

#37 5:45pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to anildash

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@stop @anildash Isn't listening part of a publishing platform? We refer to books as publishing even though most of us never write one.

#38 5:37pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to stop

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@aworkinglibrary @anildash Do you refer to the Times as a publishing or writing service? If everyone had to write to subscribe, would they?

#39 5:44pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to aworkinglibrary

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@stop If Twitter is being pigeonholed by the media, that's a pretty gigantic fucking pigeonhole!

#40 5:59pm Jan 25th 2011 via Echofon in reply to stop

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@stop I refer to the Times as a publisher. But the phrase "publishing service" seems to me to presume readers as much as writers.

#41 5:52pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to stop

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@stop It's also possible that "publishing service" is one of those phrases that shows we're flailing around trying to name something new.

#42 5:53pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to stop

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@aworkinglibrary @stop @anildash If a thought is published but there’s no one there to read or listen to it, is it truly published? #Isayyes

#43 5:40pm Jan 25th 2011 via web in reply to aworkinglibrary

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@stop does the same go for Tumblr & Livejournal? (curious)

#44 5:29pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to stop

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@jina If more people are creating accounts only to consume, rather than publish, then yes, same applies. I don't think that's the case yet.

#45 5:36pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to jina

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@stop @anildash It's an information service and a communication platform. With former, you can create content, receive or both.

#46 5:43pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to stop

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@stop @anildash Not unlike blogs, you don't have to create to read and enjoy. But readers aren't "blogging" or "bloggers".

#47 5:45pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to stop

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@tdaloisio @anildash Exactly. That's my point.

#48 5:46pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to tdaloisio

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@stop you can look at it as publishing even if you are only reading. Who you choose to follow is media. Very hard to divorce consump & pub.

#49 6:00pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to stop

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@stop What if I decided to call it an ever-expanding magical repository of wizardry? Would that be kosher?

#50 6:37pm Jan 25th 2011 via TweetDeck in reply to stop

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@herbnerder Love it.

#51 6:38pm Jan 25th 2011 via Twitter for Mac in reply to herbnerder

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