Blogging
Simple web publishing... and more than "diaries"
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About Weblogs
"Blog" is short for "weblog" the action of "logging" one's activities/ideas on a web site. Merriam-Webster selected "blog" as its 2004 word of the year (see the story from BBC)-- their definition being:
Blog noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer
However, this definition too seems limiting (Google is full of other attempts). A key aspect of blogs is that it provides a web interface to publish a site, the tools are easy for a non technical person to use, and most offten, the content publish is organized in reverse chronologicla order (so that the newest published items are at the top of the site). The topics of blogs are usually of topical interest, ranging from teen angst to hobbies to technical specialties to politics to gardening to ...
The October 2005 Blog Herald estimates the total number of blogs worldwide as 100 million. Forrester research suggests that 10 percent of internet users read blogs once or more a week. Techorati tracks 20 million blogs and estimates in October 2005 the number is doubling every 5 months.
What are all this millions of people blogging about?
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