After searching through several blogs and websites, it became clear to me that it can some times be very difficult to differentiate between a blog and a website.
Last Friday afternoon I compared a website about cars, to a blog about cars. Some of the main characteristics of the blog differed greatly from the website. The blog had dates marked above each post which made it easier to search through the information and tell whether, or how current it was. An other characteristic of the blog that made it much easier to find information was the archive.
This is something the website didn't have. The archive contained a list of posts dating back to the first in order of date.
Both the website and the blog had a space where comments and feed back could be given. I thought this a positive as it means that viewers can share opinions, or use these comments as a review of the website or blog. Both pages also had sub-pages, hyper-links, and links to other websites.
What surprised me the most was finding blogs that had commercial space. To my (prior-) knowledge, it was only websites that had commercials in order to financially support the web space. I think that this made the blog feel less personal, or perhaps slightly more professional.
It also became clear that blogs were often connected to the authors other blogs, or social networking site. This also made the web space feel more personal.
I feel that I learnt a great deal more about what a blog actually in tales during the session, and would now know the difference.
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