How can anyone get a blog this wrong
Yowza. Blog entries as pdf's? What were they thinking? How can anyone get a blog this wrong?
Thanks to Geeklawyer for pointing out the truly dreadful 'blog' by Watson Farley & Williams, an international legal firm. As he says, it wouldn't have taken them long to find someone to help them understand what this blog malarky is all about, but instead they've gone the FIUY ([foul] it up yourself) route and have ended up with something truly atrocious.
I'm sure I am not perfect, but I have noticed others who have created "blogs" in this vein. Usually they are hand-coded beasts that have none of the features of a blog (a human voice, web feed, ...).
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This is a great example of the fact that a blog is nothing more than a online easy-to-post format with a chronological feature. It is up to anyone to use it the way they want to use it. But I don't see why this would be wrong... (I'd agree that it's not very web2.0 spirited).
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Joi is right in a sense. I don't know the purpose of this particular blog, but it doesn't fit with my sense of how I want to interact with a blog. I can see the general sense of what they are writing about from the purpose of the site. But there are far too many steps to get to the actual content.
The original blogs were all hand-coded jobs, not unlike this one.
Which is why http://www.changethis.com/ drives me nuts. There's probably high quality content in there, but the style of presentation - pdfs - gets in the way for me.