Looks like AOL Journals are now live. Here’s one.
The posts at this Journal so far:
- Hello world
- Pictures of my dog
- More pictures of my dog
- Left wing politics
- Link to Megnut
In short, it appears that AOL webloggers are just like regular webloggers.
There are some technical problems: You have to have an AOL ID to post comments! Crazy proprietary author links. The HTML and CSS looks and feels creaky. No trackback. (whistle…) But, there are some things that are really right: Good permalinks. RSS. Reasonable archives. And I love the old school touch of including a guestbook.
(found by dangerousmeta!)
steve
The journal I linked to above is down or something, but there\’s also this one:
http://journals.aol.com/zvx/soundandfury/
Me
steve, does the world really need ( or care about) a kazillion blogs from AOL pre-teens and their imitators all saying the same thing(s) ???
steve
Well no, but the good thing about weblogs is that the bad ones don\’t screw up the web for everybody else, and the good ones rise to the top. It\’s not like Usenet where the influx of clueless posters ruined it for everybody else (or so the legend goes). Somebody on AOL must have something interesting to say.
Doug
Seems to me there already are plenty of weblogs by pre-teens and teens, so AOL is hardly going to be polluting a pristine well.
I\’m glad to see AOL opening up weblogging to the technically-challenged. I don\’t really believe that if you don\’t have \”mad computer skillz\” then you couldn\’t possibly have something interesting to say. Unless the only topic worth discussing is computers.
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