What the Hell is a Blog anyway?

Do people still blog nowadays? :)

Do people still blog nowadays? :)

It's when a Bee sits on a Log.

Didn't know Frank Black was a user on Giant Bomb. Sweet.

A miserable little pile of secrets.

But enough talk, have at you!

But seriously, blogs seem to be the general term for people putting their thoughts on the internet in some hopefully recognizable form. So if the definition is vague enough, then I guess most things are blogs.

No swearing please. At least keep that shit in the post itself and not the thread title.

When I google for "blog definition", I get the following:

blog/blôg/

Which doesn't seem accurate to me. That sounds far more like a forum.

I would say that a blog is 1 user posting the goings-on and personal opinions of the events transpiring in their lives; this might be anything from their day-to-day activities, recent high-profile controversies, or what they think of the latest movies, or any number of other things. The difference between a blog and a forum is that a blog is one person posting with an intent to tell everyone their opinions, and a forum is a person starting a thread with the intent to discuss an issue.

At the end of the day, though, the two are pretty similar. It's like the difference between porn with a plot and a particularly raunchy movie - you can't draw an absolute and definite line between the two, but good judgement tells you the difference.

A way for members of a secret underground Batman imposter group to communicate.

I recently described my own blog as: "an arrogant series of convoluted tirades."

Yeah... I'm going to stick with that.

@Alkaiser said:

A miserable little pile of secrets.

But enough talk, have at you!

You've earned 1000 video game points and 28.166653 Bradbux with that reply. Well done, sir.

It's a mixture of Biased-ranting and Logs (as in captain's log).

@Sweep said:

I recently described my own blog as: "an arrogant series of convoluted tirades."

Are you sure you weren't thinking of my blogs?

It is a web log - i.e. a diary/journal entry posted online. Internet people are kind of shitty at naming things/ using words - see 'gifted', 'lol', etc. - so it became blog. Most blogs are on sites built for 'blogging', and rarely get any viewers because who gives a fuck. We have blogging on here because sometimes you want to share your thoughts on something but realize that it's not exactly a good discussion starter. For example, if you wanted to rail against the sexual depravities of penguins, the appropriate spot to do that would be in a blog. If you merely wished to seek the opinions of others on the sexual habits of penguins, then you would start a normal thread.