Internet help: What is a blog?

Blogs explained: What is a blog?

Blog:
[Related: blogging; blogosphere; blogger; blogrolling]

Web + log = Blog

A blog is a daily journal (diary) that a person makes available on the internet. A person that publishes a blog is referred to as a blogger. A blog is visually similar to a standard web page, but the process of updating a blog is extremely easy an non-technical. Because of the ease of use of blogs, virtually anyone can have one - using a blog is no more complicated than using a word processor program. A blogger usually updates his or her blog daily, or several times per week.

Getting a blog of your own is easy and usually not very costly. Many bloggers use their web-log as their own personal website for everything from promoting political views to selling vacation time-shares.

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