A weblog, commonly truncated to blog, is basically a website carrying published items, including articles, photographs, videos and audios.
A typical blog is an information hub comprising of text, images and weblinks related to other web pages and blogs, along with other media related to the topic.
Meanwhile, in layman language, a blog is essentially defined as a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and web links.
The act of authoring and maintaining a blog, or adding an article to an existing blog is known as blogging. Individual articles on a blog are referred to as “blog posts” or “entries” and the person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”.
History
The pre-digital electronic community witnessed many forms of electronic communications including the likes of wire fights of AP wire, usenet, e-mail lists and bulletin board systems (BBS), going on to “threads”, the running conversations created by WebEx.
The concept of a blog as we know it today evolved from the system of online diaries where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. The term “weblog” was coined in 1997 by Jorn Barger and abridged to “blog” by Peter Merholz. Read the rest of this entry »

