Blog Posts vs. Articles
All Drupal 7 sites start out with two basic content types—articles and pages—and Drupal gives you brief and handy descriptions of what each of these content types are. Articles are "time-sensitive content like news, press releases or blog posts" and Basic Pages are for "static content, such as an 'About us' page."
As the description of an "article" indicates, a Drupal article and a Drupal blog post are essentially the same thing. They both have a title, the date published and the author, the content of the piece, tags, and (if you enable it) the ability for people to add comments to what you've written.
That raises the question: What really is the difference between a blog post and an article? Is there a difference at all? Read more about Blog Posts vs. Articles
