The Difference: Traditional Web Pages and Blogs

It's almost as if blogs enhanced the function of information sharing from a traditional web 1.0 web page with personality and relatability.  Blogs, likened to a teacher of a content area whose personality (in the broadest sense of the word) fosters the relationship between student and subject matter, create an atmosphere.  A stretch?  Perhaps.  Blogs provide any user the power to create and publish content to the internet and subsequently like coffee houses of the internet create an inviting platform for diaglogue and conversation. Posted ideas and thoughts, even if underdeveloped, receive feedback and challenges in the form of comments.  Contributors offer both the authors and readers of posts opportunity to refine their ideas through engaging with not only the content but also a network of people.  This environment begs participation and returns connections, networks, and community.  Blogs and traditional web pages represent the distinction between talking with and talking to.