For some time now I have found myself getting rather annoyed at people who call their livejournals Blogs. I’m not sure why, but it irritates me: Livejournal.com is rather cliquey (to use the word of my writing tutor) and most users are attention-whores. MOST. Livejournals are not blogs, but livejournals.

Perhaps I’m too snobbish about having my own domain. After all, I’ve been recently writing lj-ish entries, but I keep intending to write a proper article or two. The essential motive behind Blogging is the same motive as keeping a livejournal, so the only reason to differentiate between the two is pure electronic snobbishness.

On then other hand, the two are quite different. Livejournals are one site – a network of pages which no one contributor owns. However, a blog is owned by the sole writer, who can do anything with it. To don my pseudy hat for a moment, the reader is entering into the domain -pun intended – of the blogger, and thus has to show deference to the writer. it is he who has power over a blog, after all. Therefore blogs are separate entities unto themselves, rather than being a mass of often poorly written junk. Hence, even though there not be much different in content, there are subtle differences between the two, and it is indeed fair to differentiate between the two.