Blog? What is a blog?

A blog is a personal, unique piece of writing. Sharing your personal thoughts, ideas and views. It can be written about anything.

There are a few differences between a blog and a website:

Presentation and content:

· Website → Colourful, lots of pictures.

· Blog → Simple text, few colours and pictures.

· Blog → link where people can contribute their views, link to the Author's other blogs/pages.

· Website → lots of information and many sub-headings leading to other parts of the website.

· Blog is much simpler and is about what is going on at that time when the blog is written.

· Website provides a wide range of information where the blog is biased and only shows the view of one person/ or a group of people.

Information :

· Blogger’s information is shown on the blog and you can click to go to their private profile and view other blogs they have written.

· Blog → Simple to work around

· Blog → certain words are highlighted linking to other blogs related to that subject.

· Blog → is dated and given it’s own heading/ title.

· Readers can comment.

· Connection to social networking.