Blog

In that sense, blogging can be seen as a form of social networking service.

They may feature digital photo/video/sharing and "web logging" diary entries online (blogging).

A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).

While the read-only goal was met, accessible authorship of web content took longer to mature, with the wiki concept, WebDAV, blogs, Web 2.0 and RSS/Atom.

A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).

By extension the term diary is also used to mean a printed publication of a written diary; and may also refer to other terms of journal including electronic formats (e.g. blogs).

In the 2010s, the majority are interactive Web 2.0 websites, allowing visitors to leave online comments, and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.

Examples of Web 2.0 features include social networking sites or social media sites (e.g., Facebook), blogs, wikis, folksonomies ("tagging" keywords on websites and links), video sharing sites (e.g., YouTube), hosted services, Web applications ("apps"), collaborative consumption platforms, and mashup applications.

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).

An art blog is a common type of blog that comments on art.

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).

A video blog or video log, usually shortened to vlog, is a form of blog for which the medium is video, and is a form of web television.

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).

An MP3 blog is a type of blog in which the creator makes music files, normally in the MP3 format, available for download.

On 20 February 2014, there were around 172 million Tumblr and 75.8 million WordPress blogs in existence worldwide.

WordPress.com (WordPress) is a blogging platform that is owned and hosted online by Automattic.

These blogs are referred to as edublogs.

An edublog is a blog created for educational purposes.

The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997.

Jorn Barger (born 1953) is an American blogger, best known as editor of Robot Wisdom, an influential early weblog.

Others function as more personal online diaries, and others function more as online brand advertising of a particular individual or company.

Today they are almost exclusively called blogs, though some differentiate by calling them personal blogs.

On 20 February 2014, there were around 172 million Tumblr and 75.8 million WordPress blogs in existence worldwide.

The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.

Justin Hall, who began personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earlier bloggers, as is Jerry Pournelle.

Jerry Eugene Pournelle (August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American polymath: scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers.

Some early bloggers, such as The Misanthropic Bitch, who began in 1997, actually referred to their online presence as a zine, before the term blog entered common usage.

The Misanthropic Bitch (TMB) was a personal blog maintained by a person who referred to herself by the same title.

Dave Winer's Scripting News is also credited with being one of the older and longer running weblogs.

Winer is noted for his contributions to outliners, scripting, content management, and web services, as well as blogging and podcasting.

According to critics and other bloggers, Blogger is the most popular blogging service used today.

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries.

Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, Byte Information Exchange (BIX) and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists, and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS).

Today, Usenet has diminished in importance with respect to Internet forums, blogs, mailing lists and social media.

LiveJournal, stylised as LiveJournal, is a Russian social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal or diary.

Justin Hall, who began personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earlier bloggers, as is Jerry Pournelle.

Justin Hall (born December 16, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American journalist and entrepreneur, best known as a pioneer blogger.

Technorati lists 1.3 million blogs as of February 22, 2014.

The company's core product was previously an Internet search engine for searching blogs.

Consequently, CBS apologized for what it said were inadequate reporting techniques (see Little Green Footballs).

Little Green Footballs (LGF) is an American political blog run by web designer Charles Johnson.

In January 2005, Fortune magazine listed eight bloggers whom business people "could not ignore": Peter Rojas, Xeni Jardin, Ben Trott, Mena Trott, Jonathan Schwartz, Jason Goldman, Robert Scoble, and Jason Calacanis.

Engadget is a multilingual technology blog network with daily coverage of gadgets and consumer electronics.

In January 2005, Fortune magazine listed eight bloggers whom business people "could not ignore": Peter Rojas, Xeni Jardin, Ben Trott, Mena Trott, Jonathan Schwartz, Jason Goldman, Robert Scoble, and Jason Calacanis.

Xeni Jardin (born Jennifer Hamm, August 5, 1970) is an American weblogger, digital media commentator, and tech culture journalist.

A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).

He is best known as the inventor of Open Diary, the first online blogging community.