5) The "post" paradigm

With dramatic consequences for the social possibilities they afford, blogs are technically and presentationally nothing more than web sites that have, at their core, “posts” rather than web “pages” (Bausch et al., 2002, p. 90).

That is, with blogs, the document-based paradigm of web pages has been transformed into the web post paradigm (Bausch et al., 2002; Hourihan, 2002)

1. Breaking down Joi Ito's blog (anatomy of a post)

6) Blogs become the hubs of textual conversations.