what is blog & forum?

@kiran9 (255)
India
May 9, 2010 3:15am CST
Hi my lot friends, I have seen many blogs and forums but I don't have any idea about blogs and forums. What is the purpose of blogs and forums? How can we create our blogs? is there utilities for blogs? can we post our adds? is there any cost of making blogs?
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7 responses
@LeeHolt (433)
12 May 10
Hey there, A forum is a little like MyLot, people can create topics and people can answer them, as a discussion or help. As one said earlier, a blog is the online diary that people can read, so you can keep people who are interested, updated on your life, however many people use blogs now as news feeders. Lee.
@maikeruk (405)
• Germany
10 May 10
a blog is a electronic media that a person use to express itself with the possibility of create a discussion. a forum in the other hand is made specifically to discuss a subject.
@Sir_bobby88 (8231)
• Singapore
9 May 10
Well for me it is almost the same , they both have the same concept but in terms of maintaining ,i think it is better to use blog yea . Forum is better for discussion .
@iwrite (5034)
• Singapore
9 May 10
Well a blog is something more like a online dairy, however these days with a little redesign you can actually make it look like a website with magazine feel. if you want to create a blog you can proceed to my site I can guide you. my site is @ http://winningarena.uphero.com. if you want something similar, I can guide you step by step to achieve it.
@jithinpg (87)
• India
9 May 10
Blogs are personal pages created by an individual or a team to share their thoughts, ideas, lifestyle, articles or anything they wish to share with others in public. A forum is a space on internet created and maintained by a webmaster or a team in-order to allow other users to make user accounts on the site and discuss about a particular subject. A blog is usually publicly visible to all internet browsers worldwide, whereas a forum can be set locked to be visible only to members as wished by the webmaster or forum admin. In a blog, only blogger approved people can post contents or articles, and the readers can post comments on those articles(only if comments are allowed by blogger). But in a forum, members can post topics as well as participate in an existing discussion. myLot forum is an example of a forum. Now you had asked a question here and we are responding or answering to your query. So, a discussion is going on as we are discussing about the difference between a forum and a blog. Thanks & Regards, Jithin :)
• Indonesia
9 May 10
blog is more personal, but website is more personal and more customizable.. ;)
9 May 10
Forums create a discussion on a particular topic by allowing commenting on posts and blogs are posting or the content is the main purpose not the commenting....! Forms are created for the discussion of several peoples e.g my-lot and blogs are created for a single use input....!