Amy Gahran publishes a very good article on blogging stereotypes designed to help you initiate intelligent and informative discussions about blogging while avoiding the spread of misinformation. In other words, she presents a discussion on how not to discuss "blogging".

Amy starts out with a definition of what a blog is and follows her definition with a list unique characteristics and features that are common among blogs and serve to differentiate blogs from other online publishing tools. There is some overlap and blurring of capabilities or uses between blog publishing and other means of online publishing so Amy defines other types of online publishing that aren't considered to be weblog publishing. This is a great post that closes with blog myths and stereotypes to avoid when discussing blogs.

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