[…] So what maketh the blog?  This topic came up at the Blog Meet a little while ago in conversation and it has come up for discussion on TechCrunch.  A debate about whether the Google blog really is a blog sparked the debate.  The Google blog doesn’t permit comments although it does list blogs that link to its posts and the question asked is whether it could be considered a blog in the absence of a comments feature?  There are other blogs that work in a similar way.  One of these blogs is Seth Godin’s blog which generally only permits trackbacks: […]