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Things wordy, geeky, and webbyBlog vs. Post/Entry
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 at 8:34 AM | 3 comments
Talk about confusing. MySpace says, “Post new blog.” You click “Post Blog” button after writing the entry. A business magazine recently encouraged readers to add a blog. In this case, it was talking about adding an “entry.”
A new entry can’t be defined as a new blog. A blog consists of entries. Entries consist of words and links. I opened several books on blogging to check their definition.
Blogging for Business: “Blogs organize their content into short “posts” or articles, which are displayed in reverse chronological order and tend to contain personal opinions as well as facts.”
The Corporate Blogging Book: “A blog, short for ‘Web log,’ is an easy-to-publish Web site.” and “Entry: The meaty part of a blog, i.e. the individual articles are short posts written by the blogger. Also known as post.”
Blog consists of entries. You write and add entries into a blog. You write IN a blog, not add a blog, unless of course, it’s a new blog in itself that will have entries added.
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3 comments
I recently came across this when I was reviewing a new site a friend had built using PhPFox software. My feedback to him was that I found it confusing that blogs were in fact blog entries. I think with this software though, that’s the way it is.
I’ve been considering this lately while working on our own blogging application. I’ve opted for using “entry” to describe content, i.e. wherever a blog may typically use “post” or “article”. The way I see it, an “article” may be a type of “entry” (others may include polls, bookmarks, etc). And I avoid using “post” to describe content as its meaning can be ambiguous.
Common sense would indicate that a web log would be a collection of entries.
Therefore, one “posts” each entry in their “blog.”
I like dotjay’s explanation of entries, which may or may not be articles.
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