Blogged by building.

There is a fine practical distinction between websites and blogs. So fine, in fact, that the casual observer needs to be told. Which is why you get urls such as newsblog and greatideasblog and reallyboringblog. The technical difference is that you don't spend lots and lots of time devising your website and writing html code or using Dreamweaver. What you do is to start up a paid account with, for example, Blogger (www.blogger.com), choose a template and, there and then, devise your blog. 'There and then' and 'devise' are often another clue in identifying a blog. Plus the sometimes loopy content. One non-loopy blog is the above Bldgblog (don't forget the 'g') whose strapline is 'architectural conjectures, urban speculation, landscape futures'. Ruminative blogs, especially on the topic of architecture, can be tedious beyond imagination. But the people (person) behind Bldgblog have a fine and lyrical sense of headline-writing: 'Tropo-electricity or how to turn the sky into a machine', 'Unworkable devices/Archaeological machines' and 'Post-human car park' give the flavour--although the texts and reports are mostly fascinating and in clear, non-academic English. So why not start up a blog of your own? Second thoughts, please don't. Good ones take such a lot of work.

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