Chapter 1 - What Is A Blog?

What is a “blog”?

Short for "Weblog".

<World-Wide Web> (Commonly "blog") Any kind of diary published on the World-Wide Web, usually written by an individual. The home page usually shows the most recent article and links to earlier articles, the owner's profile and web logs written by the owner's friends. There is usually a facility for readers to add comments to the bottom of articles. There are many sites like http://blogger.com/ where you can create a blog for free. Many web logs consist almost entirely of links to other web logs, some publish original content, a few are worth reading.

Blogs can be personal or professional, topical or random, updated hourly or once a month or longer - it is all up to the individual. It is an on-line journal of sorts, a form of expression that is defined by each individual blogger.