With the blogosphere growing every minute, and the number of blogs in the hundreds of millions, I am occasionally startled to hear someone from an audience or meeting ask ‘what is a blog?’ More often, still, I get a lot of people asking me what the difference is between a blog and a website.

Perhaps as a testament to the remaining opportunity on the Web Frontier, us bloggers have to remind ourselves that even though we have made some incredible leaps and bounds over the past ten years, the industry is still young and there are still a lot of people at the earliest stages of learning about blogs.

In the spirit of revisiting a simple-yet-elegant look at answering the question ‘What is a Blog’, I hereby submit this wonderful video from Common Craft, the people who help us understand things in simple terms: