The definition of a blog has changed quite dramatically over the last few years. From being an amateur, the blog has come a long way, and it is now impossible to differentiate a website from a blog.
A criteria often used to separate the blogs from the websites is the frequency of updation. A website, they say, is more static in nature as compared to a blog.
For example, a company’s website could talk about its area of operations, client-base, employees etc. The website would only need to be updated when there has been some major development in the company. A blog, by the very same company, could talk about something like the new coffee machine, boss’s new tie, the new pizza place near the company’s premises. In short, it would be dealing with the interesting things (or not so interesting things) that happen on any average day in the company.
So, if frequency of updation is the criteria by which you judge a blog, how often should a blog be updated? How often do you update yours? And if a blog hasn’t updated for a long time (the definition of a long time is again subjective), do you call it a website, or a dead blog?
Hello!
I try to blog 3-5 times each week on each blog. When things happen, I usually try to post what is going on so my readers know I will be back.
I consider any blog that has not been updated in months to be abandoned. There are quite a few in the Entrecard program.
Daily! Hah! If not, then at least once a week I guess. Still too busy? Once per month perhaps?
Daily. I do post dated blog entries if I ever miss a day. Wanna have a “consistent” look to it.
More like a “dormant” or “stagnant” blog unless the Blogger or owner of the said blog is really quite physically dead in the physical realm.
I don’t think the frequency of update is what defines a blog vs. a web site; it’s whether the tone is conversational/casual (blog) or business like (web site) and whether the format is interactive (blogs seem more interactive to me).
I’m guilty of falling behind, but my goal is to blog at LEAST once per week. Ideally, it would be 3-5 times a week. If a blog that I visit is not updated more than monthly, I would think of it as a stagnant blog and I’d think hard about deleting it from my reading list. If it goes months without updates, it’s essentially dead as far as I’m concerned; I don’t have time to check back to see if anyone ever comes along and nudges the corpse. :o/
There should be a term for abandoned blogs … blug? blog orphan? null blog? blog cemetery?
Yeah, maybe “dead blog” is best after all. :o)
I normally update my main blog 3 to 7 times a week. It really depends on how much time I can spend on it after I finish my long hours at my day job. I do have a second blog, but I only update that one once a week and I always make sure the post is up on the same day every week.
I prefer blogs that update at least once a week. I wouldn’t call a blog that hasn’t updated a website though, unless it’s sole purpose is for promoting a business of some kind.
I guess the lines are very blurred these days with so many blogs out there in a very wide variety.
My personal blog I try to post daily to. My blogworld blog gets around 3-5 posts per week.
Hi..
I don’t agree with your saying: “it is now impossible to differentiate a website from a blog.”
You have to review it! you are going confused somewhere..
– Wakish –
Yes, it is a blog. It can always rise again.
I think it’s a dead blog if it is about current events or family things and it hasn’t been updated in a month or so.
If the blog is informative, let’s say about health issues or how to exercise to get rid of cellulite or something.. then it turns into a website. The information will be enduring.
I don’t update my blog every day but I try. There are some days I’m just not “in there” with a decent thing to say. My readers are better off seeing nothing than reading crap.
Well if blogs don’t update – they don’t appear in my reader which has now taken the place of my favourites list…
So website/blog whatever… just keep using your new word updation – I love it!
I have to say In my experience(not much but),it’s not so much the frequency but the fact that you can interact.If you don’t update your readers will dwindle and then it will become more of a web site,but its never really dead.I try to update at least three or more times a month.I would more but I need time to be creative also(paint etc.).Take it easy everyone 🙂
Gregorio
Entrecard has really introduced me to the phenomena of dead blogs. Lot’s to blogs I drop on are updated once in a blue moon. I believe a blog should be updated at least once a week, minimum. There are many sites out there that NEVER update, call themselves a blog, but run an entrecard advertisements, and nothing else.
I update everyday. It helps me develop discipline in my writing practices. Thrice a week is good for many sites, but I don’t buy that “I’m a busy person,” BS, I write a minimum of fifteen thousand words everyday, edit, post, maintain a healthy relationship, and do my entrecard duties- I’m a busy person, and still blog daily.
If I don’t see an up[date in two weeks, I regard the blogger on hiatus, a month, i regard it as dead.
In my opinion, I guess blogs have a more personal feel. People behind them write about stuffs that are currently on their mind. Unlike websites where they have to write something to appeal more to the public.