TerryFrazier.com
Title
b.cognosco
Description
About This Weblog
This is a weblog, known in the vernacular as a blog (a term for which I hold little fondness and have therefore abbreviated to a simple b.) Weblogs are a relatively new phenomenon, born of the web publishing revolution and the growth in affordable web creation software. They've been described as different things by different people -- diaries, day books, common books, participatory journalism, knowledge management tools, the next generation in web communities. But weblogs also have many similarities to the desktop publishing revolution of the 1980s.
Fueled by an affordable set of tools that open the web with the same free-flowing accessibility that Aldus PageMaker and the Apple LaserWriter brought to print publishing nearly 20 years ago, this revolution shows signs of having even more impact on the way we communicate and share information.
The Weblog Phenomenon
I discovered weblogs in the summer of 2002 while researching cross-media tools and became fascinated. Having spent the whole of my professional life in graphic communications, and the last decade-plus in various forms of digital media, I saw tremendous parallels to the first desktop revolution -- simple, affordable, easy-to-use tools; adoption by the unwashed masses; unseemly and unsophisticated, yet enormously promising, applications; a rising hue and cry from the movers and shakers of media over the vanity, poor quality, and irrelevancy of it all. (Oh, did I mention these same pundits now do all of their work on simple desktop computers derived from the first DTP revolution?)
Languages
English
Address
- 1041 Honey Creek Rd, Ste 281
- Conyers GA 30013 US
