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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(Still being developed)

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 [put link to wiki page] coding was required. This changed in 1999 when Pitas, a build-your-own-weblog tool, was launched.^[1]

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. ↑ Blood, Rebecca (September 7, 2000). "Weblogs: A History and Perspective"