🔗 Understanding blogs – Tracy Durnell’s Mind Garden

A characteristic I’ve noticed of many blog articles is that they are not structured in the traditional Western essay format: they don’t state a thesis at the beginning.* Often, they are explorations on a theme, or build an argument as they go, only reaching a conclusion at the end.** Source: Understanding blogs – Tracy Durnell’s Mind Garden And if you zoom out from the individual blog post level, in a sense this also describes what blogs are: a contemplation on a particular theme in depth (even if that theme is “the author’s life” or “stuff I like”). A blog is a body of work. Blogs are composed of many posts, which stand individually and can be read in any order, and which collectively form a blog that tells a story from all of its individual posts. Unlike a book, blogs grow and shift for as long as they are online, each added post changing the blog incrementally. Source: Understanding blogs – Tracy Durnell’s Mind Garden fLamed fury’s latest list of posts linked me to this excellent…