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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. A person who edits a blog site is referred to as a blogger.

Ignacio Siles, of Northwestern University, says "blogs represent a means for presenting introspective thinking, a record of daily events, a tool for political mobilization, a journalistic project, an open-ended literary experiment, a constant exhibition of images and videos and, in many cases, a combination of all the above."^[1] Blogs give bloggers the ability to deliver content in various forms that can be tailored to best reach the target audience.

Contents 1 Blog 1.1 History 1.2 Types 1.3 Impact 1.3.1 Social 1.3.2 Political 1.3.3 Educational (?) 1.4 Sources still looking through (section only on draft) 1.5 External Links 1.6 References

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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." The use of blogs started off as limited due to the fact that knowledge of HTML coding was required but this changed in 1999 when Pitas, a build-your-own-weblog tool, was launched.^[2]

Types

Personal blogs

Input info

Microblogging

Input info

Impact

Social

Political

Educational (?)

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
• How Blogging Software Reshapes the online community
• Types of Blogs

External Links

• Wikipedia: Blog

References

1. ↑ Siles, Ignacio (2011). "From online filter to web format: Articulating materiality and meaning in the early history of blogs"
2. ↑ Blood, Rebecca (September 7, 2000). "Weblogs: A History and Perspective"