Are not so good for they are really articles written afterwards and hold too much reflection and hindsight as opposed to being REAL BLOGS in which the Blogger REACTS in real time to events unfolding in front of them.
They are good articles, but lousy blog entries.
Change their name, or their style and you will be better off, but the USCF pretention of trying to be up-to-date in the cyber world and modernistic needs some serious tweaking.
Here are some working definitions of blog for you (plural) to consider:
“A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.”
“Web LOG is a journal kept on the internet. This journal is often updated daily and contains all information that the person maintaining the BLOG (Blogger) wishes to share with the world. …”
“Blog is short for weblog. A blog is generally a journal or newsletter which is updated frequently. Blogs are easily updated and may allow comments from readers.”
A crux word here is FREQUENT.
Also, the fact that there is so little commentary between “blogger” and community is sad, and more the result of the draconian attitude of the people writing & enforcing silly forum rules.
Having just begun to blog, I appreciate your post. I must concur with your astute assesment of the situation in regard to the “draconian attitude of the people writing & enforcing silly forum rules.”
There has to be something wrong when one cannot write the nickmane for “Richard” without havig it blocked out…Now, I could understand it if one were to write about a “penis”, using the common name for that appendage…
What we have on the USCF forum is BIG BROTHER and his 'puter!
There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.-P. J. O’Rourke
No, what we have is a really lousy dictionary of unacceptable words. But as someone said the last time this issue was brought up, is anyone interested in reviewing the list and proposing changes?
How about George Carlin’s seven words and leave it at that… Was I the only one who was told as a child that, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
I told the Stud the other night that I was tired of hearing him “bitch.” He accused me of using a curse word! I showed him a copy of Jennifer Shahade’s book…
By the way, Mulfish, CHESS LIFE failed to appear in the mailbox again today… baconlog.blogspot.com/
There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.-P. J. O’Rourke