The term "phlog" may also be used to refer to a PhotoblogA photoblog is a form of photo sharing and publishing in the format of a blog. It differs from a blog through the predominant use of and focus on photographs rather than text...
A
phlog is a type of daybook, similar to a
blogA blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order...
, but run off a
Gopher protocolThe Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP Application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the internet, and was a predecessor, and later, an alternative to the World Wide Web. The protocol offers some features not natively supported by the Web and imposes a much...
server. These phlogs are typically hosted off home servers running some sort of
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operating system, because a user account on the server is usually required to update the content. There are quite a few phlogs floating around gopherspace but the vast majority are not updated regularly.
Phlogs are usually arranged as a directory structure with the title or date of each entry, and a separate folder for archives.
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The term "phlog" may also be used to refer to a PhotoblogA photoblog is a form of photo sharing and publishing in the format of a blog. It differs from a blog through the predominant use of and focus on photographs rather than text...
A
phlog is a type of daybook, similar to a
blogA blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order...
, but run off a
Gopher protocolThe Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP Application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the internet, and was a predecessor, and later, an alternative to the World Wide Web. The protocol offers some features not natively supported by the Web and imposes a much...
server. These phlogs are typically hosted off home servers running some sort of
UNIXUnix is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
operating system, because a user account on the server is usually required to update the content. There are quite a few phlogs floating around gopherspace but the vast majority are not updated regularly.
Phlogs are usually arranged as a directory structure with the title or date of each entry, and a separate folder for archives. It is possible to have a few sentences under each link to a blog entry as a summary, or to host the phlog as one single text or HTML file; however, HTML files cannot be read by some pure gopher clients.
Most phlogs are maintained by hand as a series of text files. Open source software exists to convert posts from a
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blog into plain text files that can be accessed using the gopher protocol.
The word "phlog" is derived from "blog" but with the "ph" from "gopher" instead of the "b" from "web."
External links
- Down the gopher hole
- [gopher://hal3000.cx/1/Phlog Hal 3000 Phlog] (gopher link)
- [gopher://port70.net/1log Port70 Phlog] (used to be Hactar.net) (gopher link)
- [gopher://shamrockshire.yi.org/0/gopherlog Shamrockshire Phlog] (gopher link)