(What’s a CB radio?)

I was first introduced to Blogs one Suday morning, about a year ago while reading an editorial in my local newspaper that mentioned a guy named Jeff Jarvis, and a site called Buzzmachine. I am infinitely grateful to have been introduced to this medium.

Blogs represent Web Page 2.0, the evolution of the personal Web page. You can even transpose every instance of the word Blog with “Web Page” and feel as if you’ve stepped back to the birth of the Web.

Blogs exploded (primarily) by reducing the “friction” to publishing online. Just type your thoughts into a form, and the software builds the code automatically. No coding. No Webmaster bottleneck. That brought forth a second wave of networked minds and ideas.

The Millions of HTMLess can now have their say. And the sheer number of Bloggers means the brilliant, funny and fabulous poke through the slime.

They’re here to stay like anything else that works better. I just hope we pitch the name soon. Can’t stand saying it.

Can you resist calling blogging a medium and then wonder whether there will be a museum for it like museums for… media?

Um, well here’s a try at a definition by one “fool”: “Blog. Noun. Shortened form of ‘web log.’ A form of Internet site comprised of short entries arranged vertically in reverse chronological order. Entries typically consist of personal observations, opinions, and commentary on news articles and entries on other blogs (along with links to the original), updated frequently but irregularly.”

I’m sure that this definition is imperfect. But if someone had spent the past, say, 7 years in a cave, wandered out, and asked, “What’s this ‘blog’ thing I keep hearing about?” I’m confident my definition would give him a pretty good idea. Let the “conversation” begin.