Mark Bernstein is "looking for a word" to describe weblogs with small audiences:
Perhaps the audience is a little bit broader, but lots of weblogs are meant for your inner circle, your intimates, your 1-chon.
Some blogs are meant primarily for your staff. They replace memos and meetings. They communicate schedules and intentions and management desires. They aren't meant to get outside.
What shall we call these small weblogs -- weblogs where the writer is personally acquainted with most or all of the readers?
I'm thinking maybe it's just "weblogs." Is it worthwhile to make a distinction based on the size of the audience for a publication? Unless there's some difference in the medium itself, it seems to make sense to use the same term for both types of publications. After all, we don't call Websites with very small audiences "weblets," or books with very small press runs (like my own, I guess), "booklets" (a term that's used to describe a different physical/visual/phenomoneological configuration of media--very small in comparison to a normal "book").
That's not to say that there might be interesting things to look at in the difference between widely read weblogs and more specialized weblogs--the discourse communities, for example, are likely to use different operational procedures, different rhetorical moves, etc.--but maybe I'm just being too conventional.
[via Mark Bernstein]
Posted by johndanseven at February 7, 2006 04:21 PM