What is a Blog?

What is a blog? This is the question that some people ask me when i talk about blogs. Maybe you are also asking that right now , while reading this article. There are a lot of definitions for the word “blog”, here are just a few of them :

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

Blogs are usually written by one person and are updated pretty regularly. Blog can have one or more topics to write about. From photography, to spirituality, to recipes, to personal diaries to hobbies - blogging has as many applications and varieties as you can imagine. So , know you know what a blog is ? Even if you know , even if you don’t , keep an eye on this blog and you’ll find out exactly what that word means.