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pcunix wrote: “A blog usually presents current articles or at least excerpts from same, while a traditional site presents an index page, which may be of current articles or might point to various sections.”

Hmmm, sounds like the same thing to me.

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But it’s not the same thing at all.

For example: http://aplawrence.com/index.html and http://aplawrence.com/Blog/index.html

The first is a traditional web site – an index of available articles. Actually, originally most sites would list sections on the index page (assuming a large site) and might have a “Newest Articles Page” which would list links to the newest postings.

The second is bloggish: the most recent articles are actually presented (in this case the first paragraph; I have another page that does the same thing but with complete text from each post)

My point was that I have had people used to blogs be completely confused by the old fashioned index page – they didn’t understand why they weren’t seeing what they are used to seeing. To me, that seems incredible, but I’ve had more than one person say the same thing. On the other hand, some old fashioned types have objected to the blog-style page (I did the main index that way for a while as a test) and found that confusing – they didn’t want to “read down”, as they said.

This kind of reaction leaves me unsure what to do – I tried running a poll to see what percent of people have a preference, but got insufficient response to draw any conclusions except what I already know: some people will be confused or upset no matter what I do.

Separate articles, same theme.  First Darren writes about the truism that most Internet users don’t realize that they are reading a blog and might be …

- Amy Gahran

here is a snip from this post….”it’s very easy to loose the bigger picture”.

The correct spelling is “lose”

You are too smart to keep making this mistake……I had to speak up..SRY

Hmmm, sounds like the same thing to me.

Anyway, let’s not lose sight of the bigger point here: That a lot of people ahve read blogs without being aware of that — and that’s fine because blogs are not the point. And anyway, in a year or two blogs will be passe as we move on to the next bold move in conversational media, whatever that may be. No point in getting too attached to one tool, format, or buzzword.

IMHO, of course :-)

- Amy Gahran
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One of the differences between most blogs and traditoonal web sites is what their home page looks like. A blog usually presents current articles or at least excerpts from same, while a traditional site presents an index page, which may be of current articles or might point to various sections.

My home page is an index style of current articles. I do have a bloggish page people can go to if they want, but I have had people who are used to reading blogs become totally confused by my home page: they’ve actually told me they had no idea what it “meant” – they didn’t know what to do! Conversely, I’ve had old timers look at thye bloggish page and be equally confused – they don’t see an index, so they don’t know what to do.

I think most people probably grok either format, and prefer one or the other (which is why I offer both, of course). But some people get confused if they don’t see what they are used to.

I was reading this post and the great comments (Most Blog Readers Don’t Care they are Reading a Blog) and it reminded me of a CSI episode I saw recently. I think it was last Thursday’s episode of the Las Vegas CSI. In any case, they had a stor…

For me a blog is just an easy way to provide peridiodical information. It’s some kind of small CMS. What is different between a blog or a hand coded website? You could do exactly the same, but now it is much easier.

Regards,
Holger

I will definitely keep it in mind if I start up some other blogs though.

Really, besides the sophistication of the CMS functions, what’s the difference between what would be considered a news site and what would be considered a blog? Unabashed personal bias?