Sideblog
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A sideblog is a feature on a website, particularly a blog, that allows one to communicate smaller snippets of information than an actual blog post. The reasoning is that a blog post will require thought, argument and some semantic structuring of the post, while a sideblog typically displays "brief asides". A sideblog is meant to illustrate your immediate thoughts, movements or status update, and is usually less than 200 characters. Where a blog post may be compared to a newspaper opinion piece, a sideblog would be akin to the "news in brief" column.
Sideblogging is wedded to the concept of
Frequently updating one's status and frame of mind in an online platform to be viewed by friends gained widespread adoption through
This meaning came to change with the advent of