How Does a Blog Differ

From a publication.

Because it's personal, that's how.

A newspaper is a business. It's function is not to inform. It is  to sell advertising. News is provided to encourage readership. Said readership  to be influenced by advertising.

A newspaper cannot be deemed  to have a heart or feelings or random thoughts.

When pricked, it does not bleed.

A blog is an expression of one person's thoughts and feelings.

It  may be  prose...good, bad, or indifferent.

It may occasionally contain  an involuntary line of  poetry.

Should there be rules?

Who says so ?

What rules?

Why?

Should  individual thoughts and feelings never ever see the light of day? Except in fiction?

If technology permits, should people not be able to share how they are feeling or what they are thinking?

Well, Heavens to Betsy, who knows where it might lead. All those young people in oppressed  societies are discovering how other people live and think and express themselves in free societies. And just look at the trouble they are creating.

They are demanding  tyrant  leaders begone. And by Crikey, it's happening.