The Internet Belongs to AOL Subscribers, Too
July 9th, 2003
Shelley Powers comments on AOL’s plan to launch a weblogging tool:
I remember AOL and Usenet and all those naive users dumped on to the Usenet groups, coming close to all but destroying some of them. Now we have potentially the same thing happening to weblogging and all people can see is marketing and business, new social software vistas, and, more importantly — more people weblogging.
You know what?
The Internet belongs to AOL subscribers, too.
AOL’s poor choice of words (re: AOL Journals)
This is a further response to Beth’s Origins of ‘weblog’ and ‘blog’ and her comments on my blog entriy. I guess AOL is settling for a very poor choice of words by calling “AOL Journals” what everyone else is calling ‘blogs’ and …