Ezine, blog or just plain everyday website, how do you know which is which and what makes it one or the other?
From the Dmoz category descriptions:
Ezine: An e-zine is the electronic form of a magazine, delivered via the Internet through the web, by e-mail, as a PDF file, or some other commonly accepted electronic form. It shares many of the characteristics of a paper magazine. It will have a regular publishing schedule: daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, etc.
It can accept submissions, which are then approved and edited by an editor or a staff using an agreed upon editorial process. Or it could be produced by a small group of writers.
An e-zine will typically publish only a small selection of the work submitted to it, setting a tone for the zine.
Weblog: A weblog (blog) is a cross between an online journal and an ezine. Weblogs must have links to other websites, they also need a commentary on the sites. Blog entries must be dated.
Weblogs are personal surfing diaries — daily or weekly lists of links that the writer thinks are interesting.
“Personalized news isn’t about going to excite and getting words that match your keyword. It’s about going to a person you trust. Personalized.” — Sabren
Weblogs come in two major flavors: Weblogs, which are more link-oriented, keeping track of news in a particular topic area; and online journals, which emphasize more of the writer’s own thoughts, opinions, and daily life. Both need to be updated on a fairly regular basis in order to be included here (at least three times a week).
Zines and Websites don’t seem to have a description, or any one category. Instead they are listed by subject matter.
I think that leaves ThatGrrl.ca: WordCraft as an ezine then. But, I don’t accept submissions or work with any other writers. As of this moment I also don’t have it sorted into it’s own section on the site. I created 3 index pages: Inspiration and Creativity, Internet and Publishing and Business and Home Office. But, there is no one page I could say is WordCraft itself. I still have Writing Prompts, Quotations and my Author Blab pages up too. But, they are all seperate, joined in a sidebar but not on any one page I could refer to as a seperate identity from the site in general.