What is a Blog?

What is a Blog? I have been asked the same every week via emails, conversation and Instant Messaging (IM) chats to define: ‘what is a blog?’ If you’re reading this Post you may well be asking the same question.

There are a number of ways I could answer this Basic question ranging from the basic to the highly technical.

Before I answer the ‘what is a blog’ question - here are a few definitions from other much wiser persons to get us started:

A weblog is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser.

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A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.

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A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger”.

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A weblog is kind of a continual tour, with a human guide who you get to know. There are many guides to choose from, each develops an audience, and there’s also comraderie and politics between the people who run weblogs, they point to each other, in all kinds of structures, graphs, loops, etc.

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A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in cronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominantly.

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A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called “blogging”. Individual articles on a blog are called “blog posts,” “posts” or “entries”. A person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”. A blog comprises text, hypertext, images, and links (to other web pages and to video, audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular “area of interest”, such as Washington, D.C.’s political goings-on. Some blogs discuss personal experiences.

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So what is a Blog???

Puzzled yet? Don’t be - its really quite simple. To put it as plainly as possible - a blog is a kind of website that is commonly arranged in chronological order from the most current ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the base.

Have a look at the main page of my blog at here for an example. for a different example you might like to look at this one (another of mine).

Ok - now you are a tested blog reader - you’ve seen two already at least

Blogs are commonly (but not always) published by one person and are updated quite regularly. Blogs are regularly (but not always) published on a particular subject - there are blogs on almost any topic you can think of. From photography, to spirituality, to recipes, to private diaries to hobbies - blogging has as many applications and varieties as you can dream. Entire blog communities have sprung up around some of these topics putting people into contact with each other in relationships where they can learn, share ideas, make contacts and friends with and even do business with people with similar interests from around the world.

Blogs commonly have a few features that are handy to know about if you want to get the most out of them as a reader. Lets assess a couple briefly.

Archives - You might look at the front page of a blog and think that there is not much to them. A few latest entries, some links to other sites and not much else. However its worth knowing that there is a lot more going on under the plane that might initially meet the eye. For example in addition to the main page of this blog - at the time of writing this post there are many other pages or posts below the plane that I’ve written over the past few months.

When I write a post like this one it goes to the top of the front page. As it gets elder and as I add more latest posts it begins its journey down the page until it disappears from it. This is not the end of its life however, because it goes into the ‘Archives’ of my blog. It sounds like a dusty dark place but its truly just like a filing cabinet that is easily accessible in a couple of ways. You can read my ‘archives’ only by looking on the ’sidebar’ (over on the left of this blog) at the ‘archives’ or ‘categories’ section. There you will see links to all my old posts which you can access either by category.

Comments - Not all blogs use comments - but most blogs do. This blog is not a monologue but a conversation. You can give me criticism or response on almost everything I write easily by clicking the ‘comments’ link at the bottom of each one of my posts. This will take you to a little form where you leave your name, email and a link to your own blog if you have one as well as your feedback, comment, critique, question, essay on why you like my blog…. etc). Try it now. Scroll to the bottom of this page, click ‘comments’ and fill in the blanks with a little introduction to yourself.

A great way to learn about blogs is to read a few. Leave some comments, ask questions and bookmark your favorites. An even better way to learn about blogs is to create your own. Ok - you might be laughing at me now - you think you are not web savy enough to have your own website? You wouldn’t know where to start? You don’t know how?

Let me disclose a secret with you - three years ago I knew nothing about blogs or forums, I had never used the internet for anything more than email, surfing or and chatting to friends and I could only barely do any of that! But one day I discovered a blog and after surfing from one to another (blogs lean to link up to other friendly blogs a lot) for a few hours I was hooked and wanted to create my own. I found that there are free blog services that almost anybody could set up in a matter of seconds. Truly it is that easy. Literally millions of people blog from around the world. It’s not just something for young people, or geeks, or cool folk, or Westerners, or even for people with their own computers - instead its something virtually anyone with access to a pc and the internet once or twice a week can start up.

Are you still really confused? Would you like more information? Below are a few helpful articles on the topic - there are many more on the web - just do a search on your favorite search engine. Otherwise shoot me an email using my ‘contact’ button with your doubt and I’ll do my best to get back to you.

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