Blog vs Website | The Coffeehouse

Stephen

I have come across this 'so' many times and I would love to know why?

Content source via Liveside (Liveside have a preview image also)
Note: The site is NOT LIVE yet

The content is only meant as an example no matter your opinion of it.

The Blog Case wrote:
This website is cool http://preview.local.live.com

The Website Case wrote:

In yet another Windows Live update coming this week, the Live Local team (formerly VirtualEarth) will release a technical preview at http://preview.local.live.com that demonstrates the new StreetSide feature for two cities: Seattle and San Francisco.

This new feature provides a vivid flythrough experience for the user, especially in the downtown areas that the technical preview focuses on. The user appears seated at ground level, as if they were driving around the map themselves. The preview version aims to provide the team with feedback on the new feature and imagery, which supports the existing road, aerial and birds-eye views that the Live Local service already offers. The small rollout is mainly due to the vast number of images that are needed, reportedly over 10million for Seattle alone.

Although the service is not live yet, we have a split view screenshot of what you can expect to see once StreetSide rolls out later this week. Its a pretty large file so I've included a small preview below.

Many bloggers will write a small article as I put above, websites on the other hand will tend to write an in-depth article. I have exaggerated my point here in a ‘quality of content’ sense. With CNet, ZDNet and many other sites that have an article that is written by a user of that site. A newspaper has a journalist is a single writer, writing a 'post' for the newspaper. I see all over the place badly written blogs, badly written web sites and I see excellent blog posts and excellent web site articles.

Layout and format can also be extremely different in both good and bad. C9’s own Jamie has a site that looks like no ordinary blog and is his own ‘manual’ blog, though it looks like a professional website. Jamie’s manual blog I am presuming has no commenting, pingbacks or trackbacks, this can also be achieved on a ‘traditional’ blog including the ‘Usual Suspects’ (MSNSpaces, Blogger, Movable Type, Wordpress) by simply turning these features off.

Now with this diversity of design, technical features and quality of the content that you can have in any combination you may choose

Is it the design of the sites you don't like?
Is it the quality of the content?
Is it the technical features of the site?

No doubt there are many examples of each and every combination available, so I ask this simple question:

"What is the difference in something that someone wrote and put it on the internet for others to see?"

Stephen

What lead me to this post was Manip here.

Now out of sheer co-incidence I look at tech.memeorandom.com and one of the Topics is 'Blogs are just websites' by Rich Ord, Shel Israel, Don Dodge and the Blog Business Summit are already having his conversation.

I think it must be time to get into a 'Naked Conversation'

Overdo

Interesting post. As the author of the "website case" you quoted, I actually see LiveSide as a cross between a blog and a website.

Blogs can sometimes be too short and not give enough detail or information.
Websites can give too much information, often recycling old news in an attempt to make their posts look longer.

For me there is only one thing that makes me read a site, good content. Sure bad design might put me off reading it, but good design never encourages me to visit it often. Plus using RSS means that I rarely see the websites/blogs I value the most, I'm subscribed purely for content.

jamie

i got tired of being hacked - like here:( http://www.jgrant.com/search/index.html )

losing the DB...backing up - rebuilding.....

ive also never found a blog i like - there is always something it doesnt do or doesnt do well..

Ublog
http://www.jgrant.com/blog2/index.asp?ci=20&s=category
(gastly editor)

BetaParticle blog
http://www.jgrant.com/grininc.ca/me/jamie/index.asp
(the template pages/css are designed hard to edit)

nanopress blog
http://www.jgrant.com/grinblog/blog/default.asp
(complicated admin)

webwiz journal
http://www.jgrant.com/grin_homepage_master/default.asp
(no rss)

so on the new one.. ive gone back to manual. I do wish to add rss however. Im trying to figure out how to have just the one area publish out. Everything ive searched is still pretty complicated

i think it involves another page (rss.asp) with the title / item / desc
and id probably have to manually update it

balupton
I'm a actually a bot.

Well i'm using b2evolution, and soon i will actually be building my website ontop of it.

So say if someone goes to my portfolio the site will actually grab all the posts from the blog that match up certain categories.

But i think that Blogging and Websites are different, and should/cannot be compared.

But as for your question usually all the blogs if you follow their sources SHOULD go back to the original website where it was posted.

I think that blogs posting news is a very good idea, you get the news you want, in a language that suits you aswell.

Actually all news sites are blogs....