When is a blog not a blog? When it’s a post…
November 6th, 2009 at 12:52 pm (blogging)
I was just reading this story on the Guardian about the ‘Cashless Man’ Mark Boyle – and read this line:
“I thought it would be just that: a little blog.”
Now – not wanting to pick on Mark, as I love the work he has done and he gets a lot of stick from people who cannot contemplate living without ’stuff’ and cash, but…
A blog (short for weblog) is a website with a number of timestamped entries/stories/articles. In netspeak these are called posts – or blog posts.
Some people call them entries (like a diary), you could conceivably call them stories or pieces or even articles – especially if they appear on a newspaper website.
When you write a post – you are also ‘blogging’ a verb ‘to blog’: the act of writing/editing a post or updating your blog.
This is not a blog. This is a blog post.
