What is the Definition of Blog?
A Weblog, or blog for short, is a website, where a user or group of users post updates in reverse chronological order, meaning the most recent entries are at the top of the page, so readers scroll through them in reverse order. Blogs are usually organized around a single topic. Blogger and Wordpress are two popular blogging formats.
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History
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Blogging began in the mid '90s, and the term "Weblog" was coined in 1997 by John Barger. The term "blog" was coined in 1999 by Peter Merholz.
Significance
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With the advent of free blogging software, like Blogger and Wordpress, blogs became available to anyone with an Internet connection, providing a quick, easy way for people to have a Web platform to express their views.
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Function
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Blogs are formats for information. More and more, blogs are being used by professional journalists and writers to break and report news.
Types
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Blogs are often organized by topic. Popular topics include politics, technology, media, sports and business.
Fun Fact
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Blogs are ranked in popularity based on the number of incoming links by the Web site Technorati. Techonrati also allows for the searching of blogs by subject.
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