Blog vs. Website?

12/30/2013

What's the diff?

Here are some things to first understand.

A blog is a Website! So is a Wikispace, so is Facebook, twitter, tumblr...
Generally speaking anything on the internet is thought of as a website.r
They say Blogs are more dynamic and websites more static.
Blogs are found by search engines faster and therefor your writings are out there to your readers sooner.
Blogs are more dynamic since they allow users comments and encourage feeds from other places.
Blogs are historically chronological logs or diaries. So each entry is added by date.
Tags can be added to related things and make it easy to sort content. (If tagged properly)

I use them both. Why?

I use this blog more for commentary and refer to my static webpages with content. Each page I make I try to decide if it should be a blog or a page.
I like the blog feature because it is easy to do from an app on a phone or device. Some of the posts have even been spoken. Can you tell which ones?
Blogs can be subscribed to by readers and they will get an update when content is added.
As far as adding content - Here on Weebly it exactly the same drag and drop features.
I keep toying with the idea of adding blog entries instead of longer e-mails to my staff. Better? Well it would be easier to refer back to or resend.

That all being said... I disagree with some of it!

You can usually tell the difference from a blog and website as blogs are filled with ads.
Websites can have dynamic information as long as the owner allows comments on their site in various other ways.
Websites can be current if the owner just updates them!

Blogs are more commercialized (see #1 above) and writers get paid by the ad clicks. I have no plans for ads but then again I have no idea if anyone will even read this.
I don't read long blog entries. I like them short and to give me something more to think about or look into.
That being said...