“Where the blog suggests paths, the book draws conclusions”
(Blogging) encourages exploration and experimentation. In this way, blogging is the kind of writing authors have done for centuries but which usually remained hidden away.
On the contrary, a book is the culmination of this writing: it’s what emerges after years of scratching around the same topic, when all the little pieces start to come together.
The ever astute and ever linkworthy Mandy Brown on how we might distinguish blogs and books when comes the time that the world wide web is the native, natural home of the book.