What is a blog? Questions

A. What is the difference between a blog and a book?
A blog and a book are two very different things. The blog is an online journal where you can write at random intervals and publish it part by part, while a book is usually published all together or in organized series. The language used in a book is more formal than the language you can use in a blog, and in a blog grammar rules like capitalization and punctuation are not really important while in a book they are everything. Books have to be read by a lot of people and passes through many phases of editing and approval to be published while in blogs you can post without having anybody look at your work before hand. Blogs are cheaper to have, and more in some cases more people look at them. Also, in books you have to be careful that you specify details and readers know what you are talking about while in blogs, it is usual to find a lot of random information that has not been previously mentioned and the reader has no way to know what the blogger is referring to.

B. How have blogs changes recently?
The differences in the current blogs and blogs before are basically the tone and the reason why they are written. Before, people wrote to inform people about what was going on and they did so using few links and a more formal language. Now, people blog commenting on anything and everything, using colloquial language and slang, and they fill their blogs with links.

C. Why might you read a blog?
You might read a blog to find out about things that you have not been able to find information about in other places. Also, blogs give different points of view and they present the reader with different links to find more about each topic. The blogs are more personal, and the tone is lighter to read than most other sources of information, and as a bonus you can write back to the author asking for clarifications or commenting on anything.

D. Is there reason to doubt the objectivity of a blog? Why? Why not?
Yes, I would doubt the objectivity of a blog, because one characteristic of blogs is that they express a point of view and that is being subjective. Blogs are meant to show what people say, and the information is probably going to be shown depending on what a person thinks.

E. If you kept your own blog, what would you title it?The title would probably be Simply Me, as I would post my opinions and thoughts.