2 b) How are blogs different from personal websites and other forms of online publishing?

• The formation of the self
• How community is expressed and engaged with online
• And how political life is engaged with

Two major notions must be kept in mind when understanding any form of social/relational technology like blogs: How the technical form affords the social practices and, conversely, how social practices then shape the technological innovations.

3) My amalgamated definition of blogs