What is a Blog?

Lets put the things in order. First thing first, what is Blog???

Your Blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules.

In simplest of the words, a Blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not.

“A Blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a Blog is “Blogging” and someone who keeps a Blog is a “Blogger.” Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the Blog. Postings on a Blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently.”

“A Blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term Blog is a shortened form of weBlog or web log. Authoring a Blog, maintaining a Blog or adding an article to an existing Blog is called “Blogging”. Individual articles on a Blog are called “Blog posts,” “posts” or “entries”. A person who posts these entries is called a “Blogger”. A Blog comprises text, hypertext, images, and links (to other web pages and to video, audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often Blogs focus on a particular “area of interest”, such as Washington, D.C.’s political goings-on. Some Blogs discuss personal experiences.”


“A weBlog is kind of a continual tour, with a human guide who you get to know. There are many guides to choose from, each develops an audience, and there’s also camaraderie and politics between the people who run weBlogs, they point to each other, in all kinds of structures, graphs, loops, etc.”

“A Blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.”
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