The Three Blogs for Blog Analysis Assignment

The Cut   http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/

The Sartorialisthttp://www.thesartorialist.com/

Fashionistahttp://fashionista.com/

The blogs I chose are all in fashion field. They were presented and ranked on a website

http://www.signature9.com/style-99 titled "THE 99 MOST INFLUENTIAL FASHION & BEAUTY BLOGS". These three blogs were ranked at No.25, No.1, No.5 repectively.

Here are some of my questions about blogs.

1. How blogs are differ from forums?

2. If it is set up in the website (not a individual domain), can it be referred is a blog?

3. How do we measure its quality? Does it associate with the numbers of followers and comments of the posts?

4. What critaria should we employ to measure its influence to the field?