3) My amalgamated definition of blogs

This definition centres on what I call the structure and practice definition of the blog:

• Blogs are basically web sites that have been dynamically overhauled to facilitate the practices of frequently writing and subsequently archiving posts, inter-blog linking, and commentary exchanges between “blogger” and reader .

1- Blogging Platforms - http://www.vieta.ca/graphics/blogging_platforms.tiff

• personal and now increasingly communally edited
• easy-to-use and manage dynamic websites that allow bloggers to
• post passages of text, graphics, links, and, increasingly, other multimedia files
• frequently, with the ability for others to
• comment on these entries, and with the capability to
• archive these files, posts, and comments so that they are
• easily retrieved by both the blog editor and blog reader
• blogs’ simple “look and feel” (i.e., presentation and navigation) and the reverse chronology of posts is what is initially noticed as, arguably, a blog’s two most common features.

3 a) Anatomy of a blog