Websites are made of files, as we all know. But those mysterians out there are claiming that there exist websites that they call “blogs”, where new content magically appears by virtue of some entity existing outside the World Wide Web, which is an utterly ridiculous concept when given a moment’s thought; how could something existing outside the Web possibly affect it?
What these poor deluded magical-thinkers don’t get is that if you could just manage to download all the files comprising one of these so-called blogs, it would be identical to the original and thus would have to be self-updating as well. Probably using some fancy Javascript or something, no need for a mysterious explanation.
The concept of a “blog” is totally incoherent. There is nothing on the Web but plain old files. Anything can be done with sufficiently complicated Javascript, so Occam’s Razor says there is absolutely no need to bring non-digital entities into the picture. Reductionism FTW!
Websites are made of files, as we all know. But those mysterians out there are claiming that there exist websites that they call “blogs”, where new content magically appears by virtue of some entity existing outside the World Wide Web, which is an utterly ridiculous concept when given a moment’s thought; how could something existing outside the Web possibly affect it?
What these poor deluded magical-thinkers don’t get is that if you could just manage to download all the files comprising one of these so-called blogs, it would be identical to the original and thus would have to be self-updating as well. Probably using some fancy Javascript or something, no need for a mysterious explanation.
The concept of a “blog” is totally incoherent. There is nothing on the Web but plain old files. Anything can be done with sufficiently complicated Javascript, so Occam’s Razor says there is absolutely no need to bring non-digital entities into the picture. Reductionism FTW!