I write articles about subjects either related to my business (wooden flooring) on:
our static website
our FAQ & news blog
in email messages (auto-responders and broadcasts)
in ScreenSteps Live spaces
on DIY-forums/wikis

or related to being in business on my other blogs.

Those articles can be short, medium or long – it just depends on what message/story at that moment in time is I want to tell and who’s listening.
The length of content IMHO does not determine if it can be called an article or a post. I can break an article into various sub-articles or if you like post them in a certain sequence in a multitude of mediums.

Writing either a post or article – feel free to name it what you like, does it really matter?

What does matter to me if I read your article or post or entry that your passion about/for the subject comes out, that’s IMHO the most important item of writing

Karin H

@Jennifer – that’s okay – no one will really care except uptight bloggers like me. But now you know, if you ever go to a blogger meetup, to talk about the blog as a whole and the posts as individual… er… entries :p

@Kathy – hilarious… blog columns :p

@Karin – you bring up some intersting points.

First, many bloggers don’t want to be considered bloggers because a few years ago there was a major divide between professional journalists who indeed wrote “articles,” and the “look mom, I got a wordpress blog up – I’m a journalist” who wrote anything but articles (according to the professionals).

As veteran bloggers we know where we stand. Me? I feel like I write fairly good stuff BUT I know I don’t kick out stuff that is as good as a professional journalist – when I read some of their best stuff I think “wow, there is a huge diff between their quality and mine!”

Second, articles vs. posts. I like to think of posts as shorter than articles. I assume (good or bad?) that my readers don’t want to read a lot… so my posts are shorter than what an article would be… not as indepth, covering less topics/issues/ideas… one benefit to that is I can take an article and break it into 5 blog posts – and now I have content for an entire week

I’ve seen a number of newspaper sites start to write SMALL articles in a blog post format (with lots of complaints from readers)… maybe small is becoming trendy?

How wrong I was – I’ve been posting post on my blogs all along

Karin H (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)

I think of writing a post on a blog as similar to what I do when I write my column (“Stats, Sites and Stuff”) for the E-Bridge newsletter for The Alliance. I’m reporting information others benefit from, it’s distributed virtually, and I update it weekly with fresh news and data. So perhaps others who write in different venues could apply what they do to writing a blog post (er…blog column?)Ha, ha.

~Kathy

I usually hear it from older, never-would-have-been-on-myspace people…

MySpace.

For a long time – though I don’t know whether they still do, as I have let my MySpace go – MySpace referred to it as “posting a blog.” Long enough, surely, for the mistaken practice to catch hold, at least among current and former MySpace subscribers.