Blogs are Not Forums, Message Boards, Newsgroups, Listservs, or USENET

There is a misconception that the blog is just another format for discussion like the mailing list, discussion forums, message boards, newsgroups, or USENET. This is not true. None of these messaging tools have achieved much success with crossover, which is to say, none of these tools jumped from the Internet to broadcast news, newspapers, and politics, for example. Blogs have.
Blogs are not about conversation or commentary; blogs are about the effortless transmission and conveyance of information.
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