A note and a question

[fpb]

The reason why I have been publishing little recently except for quotations from other people's articles is that I am very busy. I am slowly and painfully getting my books and comics out of storage, building or rebuilding bookcases to house them, and redesigning my flat. I rarely have time to properly blog.

Now, I have a question. I regularly refer to this LJ as "my blog" and what I do here as blogging. However, few other people seem to. I have just found out that one of the most lively, intelligent, productive, and, dammit, attractive members of my f-list (stand up and take a bow, synaesthete7), runs a blog separately from her LJ, on a different site, and describes only that as her blog. So I would like to ask, do you see a difference between LJs and blogs, or are they one and the same thing to you? And if you do, where does the difference lie?

Comments

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

I refer to it as my LJ but I regard myself as a blogger. Although there is also a confused assocation in my mind that "blogs=detailing real life", whereas that is not how I use LJ. But if I couldn't happily hold contradictory ideas at the same time, I wouldn't be human!

Hope that helps - but I doubt it!

[(Anonymous)]

I should add that the linking of blogs and real life comes from the fact that the media coverage of 'blogging' that I have seen is like that, so there is an association in my head. Whereas 'LJ' as a concept for me is a very different experience and quite often not connected with real life at all...!

[(Anonymous)]

And that's me - lazy_neutrino - again. Shouldn't have cleared all the cookies off my PC!