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July 13, 2003

AOL Blogs, um, Journals

According to a column by Leslie Walker in the Washington Post, AOL's v.9 will bring free blogging to its 34 million users, including RSS support. AOL is calling them "journals" because its market research showed that AOLers don't understand the word "blog." (Thanks to Bill Koslosky for the link.)

Posted by D. Weinberger at July 13, 2003 09:12 AM


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Aol 9 !!! I'm still trying to help peaple get 8 to work, I tell them to go back to 7 or just get a real ISP, when they stare at me blankly I know why they have Aol.

Posted by: Paul Benkovitz | July 20, 2003 10:30 PM


I just wanted to know what are or is aol blogs?

Posted by: Candace | August 21, 2005 10:13 PM


I've read the article by Leslie Walker of Washington Post. But Credit must also be given to the Registrar that also0 reported the same thing.

I've a problem with the offering of Blogging to the millions or billions of people that subscribe to free AOL nemail or IM service because most people have nothing to blog about. This blog is an example of that and another example is the people who are commenting. They have nothing to comment about. Yet these blogs are being listed in Yahoo and Google Search Engines while the blogs that have issues to discuss have no place in search Engine results. The keywords AOL Blogs must have listed

http://www.newerawisp.blogspot.com

because it discussed the folly of AOL for agreeing to pay damages of some $3,000,000,000 ($3 Billions) to its shareholders because of the AOL decision to merge with Time Warner. Actually the AOL losses might havew been bigger if AOL had not been acquired by Time Warner because Time warner Cable business created some capital for AOL to loose. For example Time Warner has a Road Runner Internet Service that can't find subscribers. But this internet service has advantage over the AOL internet service in that people do not need the telephone lines to access it like they do when they access the AOL wired internet service. These access charges must be paid to the local Telephone companies that have resulted in bankruptcies of Companies like Global Crossing.

As a matter of fact if AOl is serious in making profits it must help fund the rewriting of the internet code so that the internet service becomes server oriented as discussed at http://www.hackers10.com because when the internet service is server oriented owners of the clients will become powerless. They would not be able to create the havoc they are now creating because the servers would no longer be required to send the files stored in them to the clients.

People would not be required to buy personal computers like Desktops or Laptops. Instead they would be able to surf the web by using the Personal Computers.

I hope AOL reads the writing on the wall and gives up its blogging drive in favor of the cheaper funding drive for the rewriting of the internet code.

Posted by: SATISH BHARDWAJ | September 13, 2005 05:19 PM


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