Does FoxBusiness.com have blogs?

Posted on October 1st, 2007
By Steve Petersen in Blogs, Media, Web 2.0, Website review

Overnight, FoxBusiness.com launched to preview Rupert Murdoch's long awaited answer to CNBC — the Fox Business Network, which launches in two weeks. The site is in promo phase and looks nice.

It claims to have blogs for each featured on-air personality, but I'm not sure if that is the case. I don't see any place for site visitors to comment, link to an individual post, or subscribe to RSS feeds.

Granted, I don't want to claim the right to define blogs as a feature that require easy access to individual post links, commenting, and RSS feeds, but those seem very common features. Further, I understand that while the site is in its promo stage, and the site may not want to enable these features yet. Most blog CMS products enable users to control these features at the post level.

However, right now the "blogs" are just a place for the on-air talent to introduce themselves in their own voices. Site visitors, on the other hand, cannot easily provide feedback, link to, or subscribe to them. Hopefully, the blogs will get these features soon.

What do think are the standard features of a blog? Do features define this term or not?

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Dan Greenfield

October 2nd, 2007 at 11:23 am

Tools come and go. Features change. We add pictures, audio and video to plain text — a far cry from the early text only blogs.

Blogs may have a single author or multiple writers. They may be moderated or free form.

But as far as I am concerned, a blog is a blog if it facilitates open conversation - one to many and many to many. Without the capacity to comment or share multiple perspectives, you have a website or a toothless wolf in sheep’s clothing — no bite and all fluff.