3:48 AM What is Blog Writing? |
Blog From
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A blog (a
truncation of the expression web log)[1] is
a discussion or informational site published on the World
Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries
("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the
most recent post appears first). Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a
single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single
subject. More recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed,
with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited. MABs
from newspapers, other media
outlets, universities, think
tanks, advocacy
groups and similar institutions account for an
increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and
other "microblogging"
systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into societal
newstreams. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to
maintain or add content to a blog. The emergence and
growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web
publishing tools that facilitated the
posting of content by non-technical users. (Previously, a knowledge of such
technologies as HTML and FTP had
been required to publish content on the Web.) A majority are interactive,
allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via GUI
widgets on the blogs, and it is this interactivity that
distinguishes them from other static websites.[2] In
that sense, blogging can be seen as a form of social networking
service. Indeed, bloggers do not only produce content to post
on their blogs, but also build social relations with their readers and other
bloggers.[3] There
are high-readership blogs which do not allow comments, such as Daring
Fireball. Many blogs provide
commentary on a particular subject; others function as more personal online
diaries; others function more as online brand advertising of
a particular individual or company. A typical blog combines text, images, and links
to other blogs, Web pages, and other media
related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an
interactive format is an important contribution to the popularity of many
blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (art
blogs), photographs (photoblogs), videos (video
blogs or "vlogs"), music (MP3
blogs), and audio (podcasts). Microblogging is another type of
blogging, featuring very short posts. In education, blogs can be used as
instructional resources. These blogs are referred to as edublogs. On 16 February 2011,
there were over 156 million public blogs in existence.[4] On
13 October 2012, there were around 77 million Tumblr[5] and
56.6 millionWordPress[6] blogs
in existence worldwide. According to critics and other bloggers, Blogger is
the most popular blogging service used today.[7][8] |
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