The Art of Blog: Introduction to an Occasional Series

My latest venture is perhaps the most ambitious of all. In this occasionally updated series I shall lay out the groundwork and attempt to answer the question of what "blog" fundamentally really is. I claim no mastership of the medium: quite the contrary in fact. But I think that it is useful for myself and others to understand my thoughts on the essence of blog. In a way, it will be kind of like an amateur edition of The Elements of Style for bloggers. Initially, I shall attempt to define the purpose of blog: why and for what it exists; and I shall use this information to create an analysis and style guide for blog. These are difficult questions, and they will surely represent mere dabblings in a great uncharted area of the internet. I hope that this may interest some and help others.