What is a Blog, and what is it's purpose?
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its more or less like your personal diary.. the greatest difference, its online!\n\nweb-log = blog
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What's that url? Is that ur blog
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he term blog is a blend of the terms web and log, leading to web log, weblog, and finally blog. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called blogging. Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts" or "entries". A person who posts these entries is called a blogger.\n\nA blog entry typically consists of the following:\n\n    * Title - main title, or headline, of the post.\n    * Body - main content of the post.\n    * Comments - comments added by readers\n    * Permalink - the URL of the full, individual article.\n    * Post Date - date and time the post was published.\n\nA blog entry optionally includes the following:\n\n    * Categories (or tags) - subjects that the entry discusses\n    * Trackback - links to other sites that refer to the entry\n\nA blog site typically contains a list of links, or blogroll, of other blogs that the blog author reads or affiliates with.\n[edit]\n\nHow blogs differ from traditional sites\n\nA blog has certain attributes that distinguish it from a standard web page. It allows for easy creation of new pages: new data are entered into a simple form (usually with the title, the category, and the body of the article) and then submitted. Automated templates take care of adding the article to the home page, creating the new full article page (Permalink), and adding the article to the appropriate date- or category-based archive. It allows for easy filtering of content for various presentations: by date, category, author, or other attributes. It allows the administrator to invite and add other authors, whose permission and access are easily managed.\n[edit]\n\nDifference from forums or newsgroups\n\nBlogs are different from forums or newsgroups. Only the author or authoring group can create new subjects for discussion on a blog. A network of blogs can function like a forum in that every entity in the blog network can create subjects of their class. Such networks require interlinking to function, so a group blog with multiple people holding posting rights is now becoming more common. Even where others post to a blog, the blog owners or editors will initiate and frame discussion, manipulating the situation to their specification.\n[edit]\n\nDigital media\n\nWhile straight text and hyperlinks dominate, some blogs emphasize images (such as webcomics and photoblogs) and videos (see videoblogging).\n\nSome textual blogs link to audio files (see podcasting). A notable niche is the MP3 blog, which specializes in posting music from specific genres. New words have been coined for many of these content-oriented blogs, such as "moblog" (for "mobile blog").
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a blogger is a person who maintains a blog on the internet. a blog is like a virtual diary, or a journal, where you can post you thoughts or comments about thnigs and people, and can have pther people view it and maybe put forward their thoughts and you could have discussions
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The blog has always been popular for several years. Simply speaking,The blog is a site which is allowed  you to express\nyour feeling,write some aritle,even wirte your essay,reasearch report to your professor.\n\nIf you want to know more about Blog's information you can link to this site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
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A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order). Although most early weblogs were manually updated, tools to automate the maintenance of such sites made them accessible to a much larger population, and the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging".
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Blogging... with few exceptions it is purely self-indulgant dreck.  \n\nFor some reason I have three.  One to annoy the far left, one to annoy the far right, and one to annoy my friends with my honest, self-indulgant dreck.\n\nI think there are some good things about blogs though:\n - They can make you feel guilty about not practicing your writing every day.\n - They can be a good way of keeping track of when you took various photographs.\n - They can show you how inane your thoughts were last year.
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A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log or weblog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order). Although most early weblogs were manually updated, tools to automate the maintenance of such sites made them accessible to a much larger population, and the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging". Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software on regular web hosting services.\n\n**A few examples of blog sites are Xanga, Livejournal, Blogger (or now known as Blogspot), etc.
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Start a blog.  A blog is a website with multiple postings in a chronological date order.  \n\nFor example, if your website is designed to sell golf clubs, start a blog about golf.  Write a post about an upcoming golf tournament.  Wrie a second post about your last golf vacation.  Write a post about a course you played recently.\n\nEach post is seen as a separate page by a search engine.  Search engines love content, especially content that is updated frequently.  You will get massive search engine traffic to your blog.\n\nWhen people go to your blog, they will see mentions of your main golf sales site and many of them will go to your main site after reading your blog posts.\n\nA good resource for traffic generation is Alice Seba's blog.  She is using the blog to generate traffic to her websites.  Go to it and sign up for the course, "Truth About Traffic".  At the very least, study it so you can see how she uses a blog to increase traffic to her websites.
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A blog is an online journal. There are a few different ways to get one. They are free most of the time. Try www.livejournal.com or www.blogger.com. You can choose to make it either public or private. You can also use them to post pictures or images as well.
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blog is short for "weB LOG"
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The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging". Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts" or "entries". A person who posts these entries is called a "blogger".\n\nA blog entry typically consists of the following:\n\nTitle - main title, or headline, of the post. \nBody - main content of the post. Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. \nPermalink - the URL of the full, individual article. \nPost Date - date and time the post was published. \nA blog entry optionally includes the following:\n\nComments - comments added by readers \nCategories (or tags) - subjects that the entry discusses \nTrackback - links to other sites that refer to the entry \nA blog site typically contains a list of links, or blogroll, of other blogs that the blog author reads or affiliates with.\n\n\ngo read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog\nvery informative
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Blogging, from the original term "weblog," is typing and submitting text to an online journal or similar web service. It is static and editable, and although other individuals may comment on its entries there is generally little direct exchange between users.\n\nChatting involves a chat "client," like a chat room, instant messenger, or similar application. It involves two or more individuals having a direct conversation and interacting in "real time." Chatting is closer to a phone conversation, and is sometimes enhanced by audio, video and even gaming features.
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A blog is an online journal of sorts where people write about whatever they want: their political viewpoints, dieting advice, or just things that are going on in their lives, for example. People do it for feedback on their opinions, to get things out that they may not be able to otherwise, or to help people with problems that they have face before. Popular online journal/blogging sites include http://www.livejournal.com and http://www.xanga.com
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Blogs (or web logs) are web sites that are written by a single person or group of people. Each day, the blog writer posts a new entry about the general topic covered by the blog. \n\nBlogs are not always online diaries. You can write a blog about anything that interests you: food, technology, or (if you want an online diary) your own life. You can access a blog by going to its specific URL. Many blogs allow you to add them to your My Yahoo! page so that you can use My Yahoo! as a single place to read all of your favorite blog entries.\n\nFor example, you might read this blog about video games: \nhttp://videogameblog.org/ \n\nIf you want to add this blog to your My Yahoo! page, you can just click the "+ My Yahoo" button under the Feeds section.\n\nThen, when you go to your My Yahoo! page (http://my.yahoo.com), the latest blog updates from this video game blog will show up on your page every day.\n\nStart your own today!  http://360.yahoo.com has a blog tool, or you can go to http://blogger.com.  Enjoy. :)
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Personally, I don't know.  Maybe to socialize with people all over the world and to see what they know.  I find this site like a mini-blog/My Space/life help thing.  You can find out almost anything.
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An online diary were you can add video, music and pictures from online sources. Some blogs are particular to certain things like technology, fashion and etc. They make money from ads, sponsors and sometimes selling items.