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Essay implies you follow some actual style guide, even if it's unwritten. Blogs require no structure.
by sprout 16y ago
Essay implies you follow some actual style guide, even if it's unwritten. Blogs require no structure.
- parfe 16y agoThat's a fairly snobbish response. So basically an essay is not a blog post because you say so?
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- pg 16y agoTo me the difference is the amount of effort one puts in. Originally a blog post, as the name "web log" implies, was something one wrote that day-- a log entry. Whereas essays sometimes take weeks. The distinction has gotten blurred, but insofar as there is a distinction I think that's the root of it.
- btilly 16y agoThe style ideas you have for essays almost certainly don't match what Paul Graham sees an essay as. Read http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html for details.