Where does a blog end and a website begin?

[Terry Doherty]

I was updating my blogroll this morning, and some of the newbies on my list show up as websites, not blogs, yet the homepages feed like blogs. Which got me thinking ... I've never contributed to Nonfiction Monday or Poetry Friday because I don't write about them on my blog; rather, I have pages/records in a database that is the back-end of my website. Are the lines that blurry or are there distinct characteristics that separate them?

Would love to have some expert thoughts.

[Jon Bard]

A lot of sites are now built on what's called a Content Management System (which allows you to add pages to a site on the fly rather than creating all new pages with new headers and such) -- which is the engine for blogs, too. So yeah, the lines are getting a blurred. In the end, I expect more and more websites will start looking like blogs, whether they are called that or not.