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| - | + | Blogs were originally called weblogs, a term invented by John Barger in 1997, until Peter Merholz announced that he planned to pronounce the word as "wee-blog" in 1999, which was then shortened to "blog."<ref>Blood, Rebecca (September 7, 2000. "[http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html Weblogs: A History and Perspective]"</ref> | |
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Revision as of 08:52, 16 April 2015
Blog
A Blog is a website published on the world wide web that is composed of entries meant to inform or converse with the audience. Blogs can be written by a single individual or by a group of people and tend to focus on a single subject. Blog entries (or posts) are not limited by size and can contain several hundred words or as few as a couple hundred characters.
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History
Blogs were originally called weblogs, a term invented by John Barger in 1997, until Peter Merholz announced that he planned to pronounce the word as "wee-blog" in 1999, which was then shortened to "blog."[1]
Types
Impact
Sources still looking through (section only on draft)
- Blogs as the People's Archive: The Phantom Public and Virtual Presence
- Tech Talk: An Investigation of Blogging in Technology Innovation Discourse
- From online filter to web format: Articulating materiality and meaning in the early history of blogs
- Weblogs: A History and Perspective
- Blogging as a social media
External Links
References
- ↑ Blood, Rebecca (September 7, 2000. "Weblogs: A History and Perspective"
