Five Plus One Conditions For Being a Blog

Great “Turing test“ for if what you have is a blog, by Scoble via LexBlog via Blog de Octavio Isaac Rojas Orduña


1. Ease of publishing.
2. Discoverability. (Pings weblogs.com or technorati or another ping server).
3. Conversationality. (Trackbacks or as-they-happen referer logs, or now being part of Technorati and other blog search engines).
4. Linkability. (All posts should have permalinks).
5. Syndicatability. (All content should be available in RSS feeds).

+ 1. Commentability (All posts should welcome comments).

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Comments (2)

  1. Tiff wrote:

    I’m going to disagree about commentability, if “commentability” means “availability of comment form.” I don’t think willingness to open yourself up to an avalanche of comment spam is a necessary attribute of a blog. I agree that it’s preferable to have commenting capabilities on the blog (I hate when they don’t), but a blogger who values his or her time too much to manage the flood of spam is still a blogger. I disallow trackbacks for the same reason- I’ve got a good comment spam solution, but there’s no way to port it to trackbacks, and I was getting several hundred a day. Who has time for that?

    Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 8:36 am #
  2. Chris Abraham wrote:

    I am sorry, but it actually is.

    I don’t know what you’re using, but with WordPress 2 and Movable Type 3.2, there are amazing spam blockers and I have opened all of my blogs to open comments.

    Also, that is the reason why comments are the +1

    What blog service or tool do you use?

    Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 10:14 am #