Amrit from Content Blog highlighted an couple of articles yesterday about people calling everything blogs. Actually, this thought was in my mind for a while, especially when I was posting about the Corporate Blogging and Internet Marketing yesterday. Its so true isn’t it?
If you trace back to why blogs are called blogs in the first place – they are meant to be “web logs”, and the word “log” goes back again to when people are recording data of events sequentially, may it be a computer error log, or a timesheet log book. So putting it in the “blogging” context, “blog” should apply to only websites that are really offering a sequential and continuous and flow of thoughts or opinions or experiences.
The Inquirer (the site highlighted by Amrit) clairfies:
…If it is an executive looking like they are talking about the products they sell, it is a PR exercise written by PR people. It is a lie masquerading as something hip and cool to sell you on a product. Not a blog.
If there are more than one person writing for the ‘blog’, especially if they get paid, it is a site….
When you have myspace pages for bands that are blatant promotional tools, not a blog. Movie sites/actor sites, not a blog. Paid for shills like the MS ‘bloggers’, not a blog. Spawn of paid for shills, not a blog. If you make you living from it, not a blog.
Haha! 
I like that “If you make you living from it, not a blog.” Doesn’t that make programs like Six Figure Blogging a real oxymoron then?
Should I rename my site to website-opreneur?
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Hi Kian.
Thanks for linking to my post. I’ve been linked to for the first time
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My pleasure, Amrit! A good blog deserves recommendation!