Thanks to Problogger, we found an interesting argument brewing between blogs and websites.

Simon Dumenco at AdAge wrote an article called “A Blogger is Just a Writer with a Cooler Name” that argues that blogs are just websites and that is too much focus on them.

He says …

And it occurred to me that there is no such thing as blogging. There is no such thing as a blogger. Blogging is just writing — writing using a particularly efficient type of publishing technology. Even though I tend to first use Microsoft Word on the way to being published, I am not, say, a Worder or Wordder.

It’s just software, people! The underlying creative/media function remains exactly the same. Ultimately, it comes down to this: In the very near future, there are only going to be two types of media people: those who can reliably work and publish (or broadcast) incredibly fast, and those … who can’t.

Adrants answered back that Blogging is Just an Easy Way to Publish a Website.

They say …

All this developing technology surrounding the blog platform is a very good thing. Some very inventive and helpful tools have been created but there’s no reason they should be limited to blogs or that they should be used to somehow classify blogs as better or worse than a “regular” website.

There’s also no reason a “regular” website should whole heartedly embrace weblog technology to publish its content in the exact same tone and style it always has – just a lot cheaper and a lot more efficiently.

What we say
Some key points we would like to share from Probloggers (and his readers) analysis :

  • Blogging is writing using a particularly efficient type of publishing technology.
  • Blogs ARE fundamentally websites (one of many varieties) that have more dimensions and flexibility, including dialogue and conversation as intrinsic components.
  • Blogging does have an element of ‘cool’ about it at present but the next ‘cool’ thing is never far away. It’s important to position yourself for the future however you communicate, share, and converse with prospects, clients, friends, etc.
  • Most readers don’t care and some don’t even know they are reading a blog. What they want is content that is helpful, relevant, informative and/or entertaining.