# Blogging: Outdated, outmoded and ugly.

- Date: 2005-11-28T17:55:13Z


By Thomas Crampton

Recent thread on the types of blogs highlighted something that bothers me: The term Blogging has hit the use-by date.
 
Face it, the word "blog" does not have a beautiful sound.

More to the point, however, there are so many types of blog-like interactions that it is way too generic.

In the thread we arrived at three styles of blogging (they can be mixed in a single blog, of course): 

1- Talk - distributed conversation that reaps ideas

2- Inform - links to interesting things

3- Opine - Puts forward viewpoints

Sam Tresler highlighted many uses for blogs:

- Organizational

- Personal

- Business

Can anyone think of a better term than blogging to describe what we are talking about?