01.08.08
Blog: What is the 2008 definition?
Table of contents for Blogging Basics
- Basic Blogging Series
- Blog: What is the 2008 definition?
- Basic Guide to Blogging Part 1
- Basic Guide to Blogging Part 2
- A Great Idea for a Blog is Not Enough
- Learn How to Make Money Blogging
- 5 Reasons Why Blogging is the New Internet Marketing Tool
- Five Ways to Build Your Market Through Blogging
- Blogging For Business Owners
- Succeed at Blogging as an Internet marketing tool
- Writing Your Blog: Six Tips on Writing for your blog
- Five Ways to Keep Your Visitors Reading More and Longer
- Blogging Basics Series Wrap Up
The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Blogging combined the personal web page with tools to make linking to other pages easier. People maintained blogs long before the creation of the term blog.
As new technologies appear every day, the definition of blogging is something that is constantly changing. Technology is continuously redefining what a blog is, what a blog can be, and what a blog should do.
For many years, the definition of a blog was a text-based website that kept records of days, similar to a captain’s log on a ship or a journal. However, this started to change as the group of people who kept blogs became more diverse. The more bloggers began to explore the limits of the medium and of the technology that made it possible, the more the boundaries expanded of what a “blog” was.
Today, there is an abundance of blogs: personal blogs, business blogs, photo blogs, and even video blogs. Mobile blogging devices are changing the definition of blogging entirely by making it possible for a blogger to create even more types of posts. (This form of blogging is a moblog).
I mentioned business blogs earlier and there is yet another element of the blogging world starting to redefine blogging. That is the corporate blog. Companies are using corporate blogs to announce new products and services or to react to public criticism on a particular issue.
As more and more companies hire writers to keep blogs with the sole purpose of creating positive buzz about their brand, blogger’s across the globe are arguing about whether these corporate blogs are really worthy of the name.
Between all of these different forces that are constantly expanding and reshaping the blogging world, it is difficult to imagine the definition of what is and is not a blog remaining fixed for very long.
Blog: What is the 2008 definition? No one definition entirely fits a blog.
