What is a blog?

So what is a blog anyway?

Discussion on this topic has been going on like forever, and I’ve been asked numerous times as well. If you’re reading this you may well be asking the same question eh?

According to Wikipedia,

A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

But that’s kinda too generic if you ask me, and probably most of you already know that.

So now, here something from Problogger instead:

Blogs are usually (but not always) written by one person and are updated pretty regularly. Blogs are often (but not always) written on a particular topic - there are blogs on virtually any topic you can think of.

*Blah, blah, blah*

Blogs usually have a few features that are useful to know about if you want to get the most out of them as a reader. Lets examine a couple briefly.

Archives - You might look at the front page of a blog and think that there is not much to them. A few recent entries, some links to other sites and not much else. However its worth knowing that there is a lot more going on under the surface that might initially meet the eye.

*Blah, blah, blah*

Comments - Not all blogs use comments - but most do. This blog is not a monologue but a conversation.

*Blah, blah, blah*

P/s: Pardon me for the “blah-ing”. If you want to read the whole article (so to speak) you can click here instead.

To be frank, if you truly want to define “what it is”, that’s probably gonna be the best answer you’re going to get. But if you’re actually going for “how you can make use it”, most would probably have their own little definition of how and what their blog would be like.

So now, probably it’s time to move on from “what it is” to “is it suitable for you?”