What is bloging Blog From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What is bloging Blog From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Definition

A blog (a contraction of the term "weblog")[1] is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary,
descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog"
can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text,
images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive
format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog),
sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, featuring very
short posts.

As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.[2]


Community and cataloging The Blogosphere The collective community of all blogs is known as the blogosphere.
Since all blogs are on the internet by definition, they may be seen as interconnected and socially networked, through
blogrolls, comments, linkbacks (refbacks, trackbacks or pingbacks) and backlinks. Discussions "in the blogosphere" have
been used by the media as a gauge of public opinion on various issues. Blog search engines Several blog search
engines are used to search blog contents, such as Bloglines, BlogScope, and Technorati. Technorati, which is
among the most popular blog search engines, provides current information on both popular searches and tags
used to categorize blog postings[12]. The research community is working on going beyond simple keyword search,
by inventing new ways to navigate through huge amounts of information present in the blogosphere, as demonstrated
by projects like BlogScope.[[[Wikipedia:[citation needed]|[citation needed]]]] Blogging communities and directories Several
online communities exist that connect people to blogs and bloggers to other bloggers, including BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog[13].
Blogging and advertising It is common for blogs to feature advertisements either to financially benefit the blogger or to promote
the blogger's favorite causes. The popularity of blogs has also given rise to "fake blogs" in which a company will create a fictional
blog as a marketing tool to promote a product.[14]