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How Blogs differ from traditional sites

Blogs provide many advantages over traditional sites, including:

• It allows for easy creation of new pages, since new data is entered into a simple form (usually with Title, Category, and the body of the article), and then submitted. The templates take care of adding the article to the home page, creating the new full article page (Permalink), and adding the article to the appropriate date or category-based archive.
• It allows for easy filtering of content for various presentation, like by date, category, author, or one of many other attributes
• Most blog platforms allow the administrator to invite and add other authors, whose permissions and access are easily managed

Difference from forums or newsgroups

Blogs are different from forums or newsgroups. For blogs, only one person or group can create new subjects for discussion on their blog. A network of blogs can function like a forum in that every entity in the blog network can create subjects of their choosing for others to discuss. Such networks require interlinking to pull off, so a group blog with multiple people holding posting rights is now becoming more common. Because they "go first," blog owners often have right to discuss the objects on their blog due to their ability to frame the issue.

Other variations of blogging

Other than straight text and hyperlinks, some blogs place emphasis on incorporating other forms of media such as video (see videoblogging) or images (see web comics, photoblog). Some bloggers that otherwise only support text may use audioblogging to be able to phone in or otherwise post spoken entries on their blogs. (See also podcasting.) A notable niche type of blog is the MP3 blog, which specializes in posting music from specific genres. New words have been coined for many of these content-oriented blogs, such as "moblog" (for "mobile blog").