Comments on: What makes a website a blog? Are comments necessary?

By: John Havard

John Havard — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:44:18 +0000

Let’s break the word down. Blog is a bastardization of weblog, which is shortened form of “a journal of some sort that I keep on a web site as I’m a big attention whore and maybe I want to be trendy too.” Although comments are a great way to find out if people care about what you write, I’d say they are not a requirement for a blog.

By: Dossy

Dossy — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:32:45 +0000

That’s an interesting way of looking at it, Paul. But, what about comment feeds, like mine? What you’re consuming is still what it is, regardless of how you’re consuming it, no?

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:22:16 +0000

I tend to lean towards comments being necessary for the definition. Without that, it might as well just be a feed.