According to Jarrett, blogs are personally published documents on the web, with attribution and date, collected in a single place, generally published with a static structure to facilitate incoming links from other sources & updated with some regularity.
What differentiates a blog from a regular web page is in frequency, intent, and practice. Instead of claiming authority, blogs let readers make up his/her own mind.
Blogging is like an alternative outlet for publishing commentary on other materials on the web and for relating first-hand experiences. Blogs allow individuals to publish their opinions and other material.
The reason why it's significant that your work gets collected over time in a blog is because by keeping a permanent record of the bloggers' writings in a central place, a blog implies a certain amount of accountability for the author's words & opinions.
By providing voices to the powerless and by giving a voice in the same sphere to individuals inside institutions, greater understanding between the two parties can be reached, opinions can be formed and shaped, and change can be effected.
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