Week 2 post - What We're Doing When We Blog by Meg Hourihan

I was reading this article, and I have to say that I really put it in the context of 2002. It is interesting to see that as the Meg Hourihan mentions, blogs have changed over time. She discusses the development of blogs after 9/11 to include warblogs, but we also know that corporate blogs are something even more current. Many private organizations and libraries (in the context of our course) have developed blogs in the past few years. We see those as an expression not only of thoughts, but of events in the community or organizations, of new things that happened and as a way of communicating with potential customers.
The way I look at it is that some people have personal blogs to communicate what is happening in their lives to their friends (as the author mentions), while organizations took this idea to the next level. I wondered at the beginning how a blog is this different from a webpage from the point of view of a customer looking at a corporate blog? The main difference I see is the time stamp and the reverse chronological order that the author talks about in the Anatomy of a Blog, as well as the ability of readers to post comments.