{"id":78,"date":"2005-04-27T10:15:46","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/?p=78"},"modified":"2005-04-27T10:15:46","modified_gmt":"2005-04-27T14:15:46","slug":"whats-a-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/2005\/04\/27\/whats-a-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s a blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shel Holtz posted a plea to the blogosphere to Stop defining blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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"I\u2019m getting tired of people insisting that blogs are one thing but definitely cannot be another."<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Me too Shel. <\/em><\/p>\n

There’s room for more than one approach. I think that to insist that there is only one<\/strong> right way is well, clueless. <\/p>\n

I also take offense at the idea expressed by some bloggers that those of us who allow for more than one right way to blog, to engage, to go to market, should get off the Train. That we are wrong<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

That attitude strikes me as simply replacing one bad model, the much maligned old-style corporate marketing fortress, with another equally intransigent one:<\/p>\n

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"You can see the politics of ‘being right’ throughout most organizations. People win arguments- and thus secure their position in the hierarchy- through the cutting remark, through megatonnage of evidence, through agreeing with industry consultants, and through the smug refusal to ever admit being wrong." <\/em><\/p>\n

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– from <\/em>The Cluetrain Manifesto<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hmmm. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Shel Holtz posted a plea to the blogosphere to Stop defining blogs: "I\u2019m getting tired of people insisting that blogs are one thing but definitely cannot be another." Me too Shel.  There’s room for more than one approach. I think that to insist that there is only one right way is well, clueless. I also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t