I've just read the newspaper and I came across an article about the real definition of blog. The word 'blog' evolved from 'weblog', as weblog doesn't sound very intuitive.

As time passes, people often mistake weblogs/blogs as personal diary. But blogs aren't supposed to detail one's daily life or musings. The article from a local newspaper, has given a general formula for a blog.

A blog should consists of an extract, embedded links and your own two cents' worth. Thus, should you come across any interesting articles/gagdets/myths, people will post it on their blog and give their personal commentary. However, people usually deviate from this, but it should at least consists of two of the above. It can be termed as 'classical blogging'.

Diary type blogs are meant to be sticky, you can hang around there for a while, admiring the pictures and taking a look at others' life; a classical blog, however, is not meant to be sticky and usually refers people to another site as it is meant to share information.

For more information and elaboration, click here to go to the article.

Enough said, if you want to read up more, go to this site