Phlog

This article is about a daybook. For a slang term, see Photoblog. For the Star Wars species, see List of Star Wars races (P-T).

A phlog is a type of daybook, similar to a blog, but runs off a Gopher protocol server. These phlogs are typically hosted off home servers running some sort of UNIX 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 WordPress 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
• Hal 3000 Phlog (gopher link)
• Port70 Phlog (used to be Hactar.net) (gopher link)
• SDF Phlogosphere Users of the SDF Public Access UNIX System
• Shamrockshire Phlog (gopher link)