Contentious » Brief Remarks (Basic Blog Post Formats, Part 3)

Contentious » Brief Remarks (Basic Blog Post Formats, Part 3)

Brief Remarks (Basic Blog Post Formats, Part 3)
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— amy @ 7:47 am

NOTE: This is part 3 of a 7-part series that describes the main types of blog posting formats. See the index to this series for the complete list.

The brief remark is a blog posting that generally is just 1-3 short paragraphs long. It can contain virtually any kind of content: an observation on current events, an idea, an event announcement, a question for readers, an anecdote, a joke, a description, etc.

Brief remark postings often (but not always) contain external links. However, the links are not the main value offered by that posting. In a brief remark posting, links support the content. In contrast, in a link blurb posting, non-link content exists primarily to support the links.

Sometimes it can be hard to distinguish between a link blurb and a brief remark. But remember, all of these blog posting formats represent points along a spectrum. In the blogosphere, they often tend to blend into each other…

If you use blogging software that allows you to publish just the beginning of a posting on your blog’s home page and then finish it on a separate page, the full text of a brief remark posting probably would fit well within your home page layout (and maybe in your webfeed, too).