People seem to still be asking what is it about blogging? Why do you blog?

For me it's a bit ego, a bit instant (imagined) fame and a bit of a release of feelings and a chance to put them in order while I type. It's a catch 22 that way. I write things I don't really want anyone and everyone to know or read about. Yet, for me writing them is a way of getting rid of them, or at least re-sorting things inside my own head.

Anyway, the next question, not that the other one is out of the way. Next, people tend to ask what is a blog, how is it different from an ezine?

That is tricky. What makes one site an ezine, another a newsletter and yet another a weblog? Maybe it's too tricky and should be left in the realm of things that don't really need to be defined, just enjoyed.

However, for those who are curious...

My take on a blog over an ezine is that a blog is still a journal while an ezine is usually professionally geared in some way. When people try to pigeonhole BackWash they call it a blog community. I don't agree. It's too complex to be filed under blog. There are more than just personal rants, soapboxing and such going on here. We even have newsletters!

What is and is not a blog? Maybe the world will never know.