>classify something as a mother?
Actually, a mother seems to me to be a female that has given birth and/or
has taken legal guardianship of a child. Of course there are breakdowns to
this as well: birth mother, adoptive mother, etc. But certainly not all
women are mothers. However, if I am reading your post correctly it seems to
me you may have blurred the line betweenn a definition and word usage, e.g.
The Mother Of All Wars is not literally a mother -- same with a woman who
cares for someone or something like it were her child. A mothering
relationship doesn't seem to necessarily make a woman a mother.
If we are to agree that the definition of blog is nebulous at best, just
like the definition of art. Then that, to me, means two things: 1) we will
never be able to define what a vlog is, and 2) just as art is a subjective
term, it is perfectly legitimate for someone to interpret "blog" as just
another word for website (which, again, I don't necessarily agree with).
-David
>From: "petertheman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com
>To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [videoblogging] Re: Claudio's figuring it out (was: Your oldest
>vlog entry)
>Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:12:57 -0000
>
>
> > Is there a definitive characteristic that is exclusive to all blogs?
>I'm not
> > sure.
>
>As an information architect obsessed with categorization, I have to
>chime in :)
>
>There is no definitive characteristic that is exclusive to all blogs.
>It is a category with fuzzy boundaries, as we say.
>
>Many categories have fuzzy boundaries. Take "mother". How can we
>classify something as a mother? Is there a list of defining
>characteristics? Not really. Given birth? Not really, how about a
>person whose child was adopted. Yet we still call her a mother. Taking
>care of a child? Not really, how about someone who gave birth but
>doesn't take care of the child. And so on. Yet, we all know when
>someone is a mother and when they're not. It just doesn't work by
>using in/out criteria.
>
>The discussion of trying to define blogging in terms of a list of
>checkboxes we can check of to determine this is fruitless.
>
>Cheers,
>Peter
>
>
>
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