I’ve been doing “web stuff” in some form since 1995. I made websites, I put my thoughts online. When blogs first became popular, around 1999, I didn’t get it. A blog is an ordinary web page.
Around the same time, I helped start a college radio station on the Internet. We played music, talked about campus issues, and more. We certainly had the equipment to podcast, if there had been such a term. But, podcasting is just an ordinary MP3 file.
My most important point here is that I have a history of being dead wrong.
Web pages and MP3 files are old technology (relative to the fast-moving web), but they’re being used in new ways. Webheads invented a number of tiny tweaks that make blogs and podcasts more popular. RSS is used to automatically keep track of new posts or episodes. Structured content makes blogs and podcasts easier to search.
Blogs are more than just web pages. Podcasts are more than just MP3 files. Everything new is old. It’s time I start thinking before I use the word “just.”
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