What Does the Word Blogger Mean?
A blogger, quite simply, is someone who maintains a blog, which is a kind of online journal that typically is maintained by a single person or a collection of people. Blogs often are updated regularly, sometimes several times a day, and posts are listed chronologically so that more recent posts are visible at the top of the page.
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History
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The history of the blog starts in 1994 when a college student named Justin Hall created Links.net, which was the first blog ever created, according to "New York Magazine." Blogging was further popularized with the 1999 launch of Blogger, a blog-creation service that made setting up a blog accessible for the general public and inspired a widespread collection of people to start blogging. The proliferation of blogs included the creation of professional blogs maintained by paid bloggers.
Weblogs
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Blog is shorthand for weblog, which is a term that an early blogger named Jorn Barger gave to the online journals that he was writing. Barger used the term as a short way of saying he was "logging the web," according to New York Magazine. In other words, a weblog was a way of keeping a running log, or diary, on the web. The term blog was first used in 1999 by a programmer named Peter Merholz as a short way of saying weblog.
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Format
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A blogger's work in maintaining a blog encompasses multiple roles. First of all, a blogger writes the individual blog posts, which might be very short or very long. Bloggers often include links in their posts that connect to other sites on the Internet, including other blogs, with material related to the content of the post. A blogger might include multimedia content, too, such as videos and images. An important element of most blogs is a comments section because lively, popular blogs tend to have interactive elements that welcome an engaged audience. Bloggers frequently respond to reader feedback in the comments thread or with new posts.
Blogger Expertise
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The most popular and successful bloggers tend to follow a certain theme or center on a common subject area, such as politics, literature, media, celebrity gossip or sports, and keep their focus on that area. For that reason, prominent bloggers tend to have some area of expertise that helps anchor their blog and attract an audience. Of course, part of the freedom of the Web and of blogging is that no experience or expertise is required; anyone with an Internet connection can be a blogger. Blog-hosting sites are so simple, in fact, that a blogger needs very little technological expertise.
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