what is a 'Blog' ?

Question

writing a blog...

Answer 1

A blog is a web log of any number of things. Some people use them as diaries and others use them as way to share information about a common topic of intrest.

Answer 2

A blog is an online diary where people share their thoughts and daily activities. Due to the easy availability of online publishing tools, even an average internet user can start a blog.

Blogger,
LiveJournal,
Xanga,
Typepad

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Answer 3

Blog is a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.

A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.

Answer 4

A 'Blog' is a web blog.Ya can find many websites on Internet where ya can write yer own blog. It can be yer online diary, with yer photos and stuffs ya like uploaded on it, with the background ya design, or whatever ya want it to be to show yer characteristics, yer opions or simply what ya have done evryday. However, more and more blogs become places to advertise products or even for politicians to get more votes.

Answer 5

Look, it is easy to search yahoo answers for questions you think of that you might think have been asked before. You can click into the field at the right of the search bar. Then type.. What is a blog? Then your results will come up there. I already answered this like 4 days ago. Good luck.

Answer 6

"Short for weblog.
A meandering, blatantly uninteresting online diary that gives the author the illusion that people are interested in their stupid, pathetic life. Consists of such riveting entries as "homework sucks" and "I slept until noon today."

"Before it became an internet word, blog was a very strong drink of indeterminate recipe invented by sf fans, worse even than their Nuclear Fizz; like Monty Python’s Australian “fighting” wine, it is generally believed that blog is best left in the bottle so it can be used for hitting people over the head with"

Answer 7

Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site. If it is website, it displays in chronological order the postings by one or more individuals and usually has links to comments on specific postings

Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Most blogs are primarily textual although many focus on photograph (photoblog), videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting).

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You can do both blog and upload your photo images for free here. They have very good security for images and blog post. If you set your album or post as private, other user can not see your album's images or post unless you allow them to see it. Best of all, the message and feedback feature allow you to contact your friend or other user directly easily. Also you can set your post as draft only for you to read. After you sign up, your URL address will be "username.neigo.com". Easy to remember and you can share it with your friends. Customize themes and title allows you to set up your personal style for the interface. Also they have very good interacting tools such like message and feedback that allow you contact to other user freely.

Answer 8

A blog is a website made of articles written day after day, archived by month and category.
It also has interactive features such as comment and trackback.
Finally is has an RSS feed to let people easily subscribe to hundreds of blogs and read them.

Answer 9

It's sort of like writing a diary I think - but it specifically applies to it being written / show on the internet. My friend went away backpacking and had her own website where we could log on and read her 'blog' - it was basically just like her diary / thoughts... It probably has other meanings aswell, but that's the only one I know.

Answer 10

http://www.answers.com/blog

A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log or weblog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order. Early weblogs were simply manually updated components of common websites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of web articles posted in said chronological fashion made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging". Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software on regular web hosting services.

Like other media, blogs often focus on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. Some blogs function as online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.
Blog basics

The term blog is a blend of the terms web and log, leading to web log, weblog, and finally blog. 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 entry typically consists of the following:

* Title - main title, or headline, of the post.
* Body - main content of the post.
* Permalink - the URL of the full, individual article.
* Post Date - date and time the post was published.

A blog entry optionally includes the following:

* Comments - comments added by readers
* Categories (or tags) - subjects that the entry discusses
* Trackback and or pingback - links to other sites that refer to the entry

Alongside the regularly updated entries, a blog site often has a less-frequently-updated list of links, or blogroll, of other blogs that the author reads; and/or, with whom he or she affiliates.

It is common for blogs to contain advertising in the form of AdWords. Popular blogs can generate significant revenue by this means, and also via banner ads and referral fees for promotion of items on commercial websites such as Amazon.com.