This is a filter, a journal, a notebook...

El Fuerte asked me to provide an example of a notebook blog. El Fuerte is trying to determine what categories his blogs and LJs fit into.

Well, El Fuerte, the line between notebook and journals is blurry. And to be an ideal blog of any type, one would include third-party links… thus everything is a filter. But that doesn’t help El Fuerte.

Journals are shorter, more informal. Journals consist of short, every day kind of entries: they are unedited (and sometimes lack punctuation/capitalized letters…). If you do a opt for a random search on your favorite blog site, you’ll likely find one of these.
The Random Ramblings of a Random Me!
Richard Matich’s Blog

Notebooks can be based on everyday topics, but the blogger in this case labors to create a coherent, edited entry.
David Byrne Journal
dunwatt’s Xanga site

Lastly, filters serve primarily as link-providers. There is usually little copy: the audience gets to know the author based on what they link to, not what they say.
Neat Stuff
Cool Hunting

I hope that helps, El Fuerte. Again, ideally all formats of the blog include links to other blogs and sites. If the author doesn’t make use of HTML (or XML or whatever W3 standard we’re on) the blog is nothing more than a paper journal published online.

But then again, one could argue that all online journals are technically blogs because they’re published online. After all, all “blog” means is “Weblog.” And a weblog is something updated periodically, which most recent posts first. Seriously, that’s all it is, we’re kidding ourselves if we say we must include hyperlinks, a single topic, an archive or a sidebar with links.