2 a) Can we have one definition for all blogs?

How many blogs are there?

• Rebecca Blood states that in early 1999 there were less than 30 blogs on the entire Internet.
• By July 2002, blogger.com claimed that it had registered almost 800,000 blogs and that 1.5 blogs were being created on its platform every minute.
• By Oct, 2003, Perseus blog survey estimated that 4.12 million blogs were in existence.
• By late-2004 there were more than 10 million blogs in the blogosphere.
• By this weekend, Technorati estimated there were 30 million blogs on their blog tracking system

1. http://www.vieta.ca/graphics/technorati_blog_chart.tiff
   
2. http://www.blogninja.com/
3. http://www.perseusdevelopment.com/images/blogsurvey/agerange05.gif
4. http://www.lazygnome.net/
5. http://conscious-dream.livejournal.com/
   

“The popular conception of blogs reflects an unrepresentative elite [and] foregrounds selected practices and marginalizes others, [m]isrepresent[ing the] nature of blogging along with its future trajectory.” (BROG Project)

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