What's the difference between channels and blogs?

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... in that online conversations happen all over the place.

Hmmm... yes, conversations happen all over the place, but humans (and machines) typically try to create order from chaos. They do this by meta-categorizing information. This seems to be a natural objective in virtual and physical worlds.One might even conclude that while conversations [about a specific subject] occur everywhere and across all mediums, natural bonds based on say, tags(?) can be used to describe a "conversation channel". This is a virtual channel in that its topology is guided and shaped by tags (in this theoretical example).People tend to prefer the benefits that channels provide - they create the notion of a "meta-handle" that makes it easier for them to understand, know about, and share. Search engines love channels - they provide clumps of related information that make it easier for them to recommend as a source of knowledge because the content has a certain degree of density about a single topic.While most MyST Blogsites define separate blogs within a single blogsite as a "channel", the architecture embraces this idea purely as a logical array of like-minded information. The conversations that may occur within and peripheral to a given post (i.e., an item resource in a channel) are not bound to that channel. <a title="Topic Cloud FAQ" href="blog/108399">Topic Cloud</a> automatically exposes relationships that are "channel-less" and our filter-pattern technology allows us to create virtual channels to meet future unknown business requirements. 9 application/xml false channels What's the difference between channels and blogs? A channel is a container for content; a blog is a type of channel but there can be other types as well. item/154366 Channels and Comments Kevin Lynch (Macromedia) recently asked if there were good ways to create a commenting infrastructure for Weblogs. http://myst-technology.com/public/blog/18736 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aseidl 68.40.167.222 192677 false true false false true 174050 blog blogsite/Blogsite/moderated