Mar 19 2007
What is a Blog?
A weblog, which is usually shortened to blog, is a type of website where updates, or posts, are usually made and displayed with the most recent post being at the top of the page.
While many blogs are personal in nature and act as a public online journal they can really be about anything. Often you will find blogs dedicated to a specific topic such as food, politics, or local news. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs and web pages related to its topic. Some blogs are dedicated to a specific media. Video blogs, audio blogs, and photoblogs have all become popular. There are even moblogs (short for mobile blogs) which are blogs written by a cell phone or PDA.
Interestingly, the term “weblog†was coined by Jorn Barger way back in 1997. This was later shortened to “blog†and is accepted as both a noun and verb. So you can say, “I have a blog.†or “I blog about cars.â€
A blog entry typically consists of the following:
- Title, the main title, or headline, of the post.
- Body, main content of the post.
- Permalink, the “permanent†URL of the full, individual article.
- Post Date, date and time the post was published.
- Comments
- Categories (or tags) - subjects that the entry discusses
- Trackback and or pingback - links to other sites that refer to the entry
Early weblogs were simply manually updated components of websites. People needed to be web savvy and dedicated in order to start and maintain a web blog back then.
But now, browser-based software and dedicated blog hosting services such as http://www.today.com have made it super easy for everyone to join the blogosphere.
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This is eye-opening and beautifully written. Thand you to the writer.
waz up homie!!!1
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We are interesting in bloging through today.com, and we are trying to know the rules and regulations, the need software to write through today, pl. give the above details to blog on today.com…Please.. On_Jesus_Christ/today
One afternoon, I was in the backyard hanging the laundry when an old, tired-looking dog wandered into the yard. I could tell from his collar and well-fed belly that he had a home. But when I walked into the house, he followed me, sauntered down the hall and fell asleep in a corner. An hour later, he went to the door, and I let him out. The next day he was back. He resumed his position in the hallway and slept for an hour.
This continued for several weeks. Curious, I pinned a note to his collar: “Every afternoon your dog comes to my house for a nap. ”
The next day he arrived with a different note pinned to his collar: “He lives in a home with ten children - he’s trying to catch up on his sleep.”
I cried from laughter
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A BLOG TO ME IS A STORY OR NEWS THAT IS AT LEAST 80 WORDS LONG.