A blog a truncation of the expression weblog is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informaldiary-styletext entries ("posts"). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual[citation needed], occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic. In the 2010s, "multi-authorblogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and sometimes professionally edited.MABsfrom newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups,and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging"systems helps integrateMABsandsingle-authorblogs into the news media. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to ablog.Manyblogs provide commentary on a particularsubject or topic, ranging from politics to sports. Others function as more personal online diaries, and others function more as online brand advertising of a particularindividual or company. A typical blog combines text, digital images, and links toother blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important contribution to the popularity of many blogs. However, blog owners or authors need to moderateand filter online comments to remove hate speech or other offensive content. Most blogs are primarily textual, althoughsome focus on art (art blogs), photographs (photoblogs), videos (video blogs or "vlogs"), music (MP3 blogs), and audio (podcasts). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts. In education, blogs can be used as instructional resources. These blogs are referred to as edublogs.
On 16 February 2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence.
On 20 February 2014, there were around 172 million Tumblr and 75.8 million WordPress[5] blogs in existence worldwide. According to critics and other bloggers, Blogger is the most popular blogging service used today. However, Blogger does not offer public A blog is a frequently updated online personal journal or diary. It is a place to express yourself to the world. A place to share your thoughts and your passions. Really, it’s anything you want it to be. For our purposes we’ll say that a blog is your own website that you are going to update on an ongoing basis. Blog is a short form for the word weblog and the two words are used interchangeably.As so often happens in the English language, many derivatives of the word blog have been created.
One who participates in the activities of maintaining a blog is known as a blogger and the activity of keeping a blog is known as blogging. So we could say that the blogger blogs in his blog, butthat might cause your English teacher to weep. We are going to use these terms with alarming frequency, so make sure you understand what they mean before you go on.So who are these fearless people who would be willing to post about their lives in as public a forum as the Internet? They are people just like you. Once the haven of technical know-it-alls, blogging has suddenly caught-on as alegitimate hobby and has entered the mainstream. Every day millions of people,some of whom have no technical ability whatsoever, write on their blogs.
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