Has 'blog' replaced the word 'article'?

I guess it is becoming a trend. more personal means more connection to your audience. And less technical means more people who encounter your article will be able use that knowledge. I won't call it a lower standard but as writers, we need to connect with the audience,whatever or whomever they may be. There were times when my client would put emphasis on using 2nd degree pronouns and make it less technical as possible. Add a little more personal knowledge if you have it and it related to the one you're writing. Kinda weird since I do both (article writing) and formal research writing. makes one confused sometimes.

I did Helium when I first started writing. I never did get a payout from them. With yahoo voices, you can do poetry, prose, opinion pieces as well as standard I for national articles. I guess these places could loosely be called blogs because these articles are all ours and on one site or another. I am/was a moderator on Knoji and I just quit writing there because their pay is do lousy. I make really good at yahoo. I mostly write health related articles, but I also do science and haikus too just for fun. I don't bother with any if the others because I can't make $150 plus a month anywhere else on the Net.

If you ask me, my answer would be a NO. A blog is more like a log - informal, impersonal and if I may add dismissive most of the time. I know it can be very confusing on the internet but I am sure an avid and discerning reader like yourself would be able to tell and determine if a post is a blog (web log) or article (online and offline). I feel that you are being humble here. Don't dwell too much how some wannabe want to call your article a blog, I am sure there are other discerning readers in the midst who thinks and sees otherwise.

Hi Celticeagle, the trend is for citizen journalism. That means to add in your own opinion, and experience into the content to make it more personable. I think that is the trend. Instead of reading a professional article about how to do this or that, the readers trust those with personal experience. I think Yahoo does not really care about the way the articles are written, as long as they can get decent page views, and decent income.

I know that the site that I do all of my article writing on does say that you are not to write your articles in the first person unless you are doing creative writing. I personally think that this is the best way to go about it because I tend to think that something in the third person is much more professional than something that is written in the first person. That said, I do think that there are a lot of people that are trying to make money fast and they don't take the time to pay attention to the rules and they aren't professional about what they are doing at all.

On some sites I see the same trend of how they have down graded, in a way, their standard for an "article". I believe it is only online and not in newspapers and magazines. I don't knwo why that is, I suppose because they don't need a high readership like a newspaper. there are millions of readers all over the world daily.... that's my idea.

every site has different writing criteria, even when you have already written the article for one site, you have change things around to be accepted by the next site.

i do not think that articles are substituted or replaced by blogs. they may be in the same breath of some websites, but the intent of the composition is different. blogs can be articles which is broader and larger than blogs. the intent of the writing can help define whether a piece is an article or blog. a blog is a personal story and view of a writer. an article can be like that and other things.

Well for many people they don't actually know the difference or if their is one. But a blog and article are different (in theory and 99% of the time atleast in practice). A blog will generally be between 100 and 500 words and be alot more brief on its points etc. An article will be sometimes 1500 words or more and be ALOT more in-depth. Here is more info http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/whats-difference-between-blog-and-article-content-explained Basically in a nutshell it comes down to the content of the article / blog. As for writing lately being more personalized for alot of people it just seems to be whats 'in' at the moment for style. Alot of columns etc you have to remember also have been shortened into a more of a blog style platform also.

Hi I'm a blogger but not really a writer I think blog refers to a more personal written articles while articles refer to a more professional thing, I'm really not a professional to support what I know but hey I think you are a good writer