One topic that often comes up in conversations about blogging is how do you define a blog. Answering the question invariably includes a description of the attributes a website must have in order for it to be a blog: 1. Reverse chronologically-ordered content, written by the author 2. Author's personality/passion shining through in the posts 3. Commenting - the means for visitors to comment on the blog itself 4. Trackbacks (links to and from other blog posts) 5. Content distribution by RSS It's attribute #3, on commenting, about which Seth Godin, for instance. Dave Winer's post yesterday in which he defines the one true characteristic of a blog:
The unedited voice of a person.That's all. Nothing else is a requirement. That's a pretty good definition. If you think about it, the attributes I mentioned above are the technical description of a website that's a blog (and see Dave Winer's Trackbacks, for instance, which link and connect content on the web. But to be a blog, a website doesn't require on-site comments, just the unedited voice of the blogger. I'd accept that view.
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