"weblogs are like jam sessions." – hubert burda.

weblogs are an idea powered by the insatiable human desire for story-telling (according to p. praschl) or – more generally – the need for communication and traditional media's sedation (or imperfection) to embrace this need as elixir of juvenation.

in 1999 the helmatics sometimes described themselves to be like a music group, like a band of performing artists: meeting in the world-wide studio, practising new text-riffs and link-lyrics (not deadly seriously, though).

weblogs are a movement. weblogs are a brand. weblogs are an open source marketing strategy. c'mon, baby!

the term weblogs (successfully, imho) created a distinction between a website as it should be and a website as it was created by expensive full service new media agencies (ie. putting the client's company history on the front page and its business logic in the urls).

a weblog is a website. a usable one.

weblogger turned back and took another branch. probably down a path paved by open source pioneers short before.

"ceci n'est pas un weblog." – stating the obvious (thanks, jochen).

at the moment, weblogs are on the search for their own identity.

while there hasn't to be a constraint for a razor-sharp definition of what a weblog is right now, this circumstance certainly leads to the old gramsci dilemma.

but besides these "morbid symptoms" the web provides enough space for vital activities. when we blog we're jamming.

"there's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry!" – dark helmet in mel brook's "spaceballs".

i don't know whether weblogs need a business model. stefan glänzer thinks they are a business model but isn't sure about that, either. anyway, ideas emanate from attempts like 20six.

mobile blogging, audio blogging, buzzword blogging. journalists like to ask about such things.

and more people get in touch with weblogs.

still even more would get that weblog thang on their radar if the mainstream web-space/homepage providers would throw out guestbooks, upload tools and the like from their services and simply offer weblog hosting. it's all condensed in there. so why not.

why not? maybe because mainstream brands interfere with grassroot ideals?

and in about one or two years from now (who would bet?) we all will be sure about what a weblog is: yet another side-effect of the agreement called internet. at least.

if they are here to stay big-time we hardly will imagine a time without weblogs. actually, nobody questions what makes a newspaper today, either.

"weblog shmeblog." – jish.nu.