Comments on: Twitter Tips for Beginners: Lessons from the Evolution of Blogging Part 2 – Link Lists http://www.twitip.com/twitter-tips-for-beginners-lessons-from-the-evolution-of-blogging-part-2-%e2%80%93-link-lists/ Twitter Tips in 140 Characters or More Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:03:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CrystalsQuest http://www.twitip.com/twitter-tips-for-beginners-lessons-from-the-evolution-of-blogging-part-2-%e2%80%93-link-lists/#comment-43638 CrystalsQuest Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:05:12 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=2132#comment-43638 Thanks Jesse. Sounds like you're already au fait with twitter, so these early posts in the series might not offer you much, but I'm glad you took the time to comment and clarify. Rebecca's essay was for the period up to about 2000, but this series is meant to take it from there, <em>after</em> blogs became part of the browser-accessible web. The history I'm basing it on is my own experience, watching the internet evolve as a webmaster since 1989. It fascinates me. Technically, the link lists she refers to were part of the internet, but not the web, since they were served via specific servers and software, before the web integrated things like bulletin, chat etc, into the http protocol, which is why I consider the blog link lists to be a step in their evolution after they identified as 'blogs'. Hope this clears up the point. Crystal Thanks Jesse. Sounds like you’re already au fait with twitter, so these early posts in the series might not offer you much, but I’m glad you took the time to comment and clarify.

Rebecca’s essay was for the period up to about 2000, but this series is meant to take it from there, after blogs became part of the browser-accessible web. The history I’m basing it on is my own experience, watching the internet evolve as a webmaster since 1989. It fascinates me.
Technically, the link lists she refers to were part of the internet, but not the web, since they were served via specific servers and software, before the web integrated things like bulletin, chat etc, into the http protocol, which is why I consider the blog link lists to be a step in their evolution after they identified as ‘blogs’. Hope this clears up the point.

Crystal

]]> By: Jesse http://www.twitip.com/twitter-tips-for-beginners-lessons-from-the-evolution-of-blogging-part-2-%e2%80%93-link-lists/#comment-43497 Jesse Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:45:42 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=2132#comment-43497 You've got it backwards. The filtering function of blogs didn't "evolve." As Rebecca Blood says in the essay you seem to be basing this on, "[t]he <i>original<i> weblogs were link-driven sites" (emphasis added). Also, people have always shared links on Twitter - it has nothing to do with the "professionalization" of the service. That said, your advice, if not your history, is sound. You’ve got it backwards. The filtering function of blogs didn’t “evolve.” As Rebecca Blood says in the essay you seem to be basing this on, “[t]he original weblogs were link-driven sites” (emphasis added). Also, people have always shared links on Twitter – it has nothing to do with the “professionalization” of the service. That said, your advice, if not your history, is sound.

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