What is meant by a blog ?
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blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.
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Nothing. It's a shortened version of weblog.
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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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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 weblog is an online personal journal that is regularly updated on a sometimes daily basis, with a timestamp (date of posting) and a byline (credit of who authored it). In other words, it's nothing more than a cyber version of a diary, in which the author will post thoughts, ideas, feelings, and stories whenever the mood strikes. \n\nAs opposed to a regular web site, a post can literally be published in *real time*. As a result, blogs tend to be more spontaneous and freeform than regular web sites, since the authors can publish their thoughts instantaneously. They also tend to be more personal, since blogs are usually places in which authors talk about events in their personal lives, observations, or whatever feelings they may be having at the moment.\n\nBut not all blogs are personal. Some have just been places for people to post news items that they are interested in, or a gathering place for more than one person to merely post their views about current political, social, cultural or other interesting news events of the day.
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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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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLOG
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Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.\n\nA blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.\n\nPeople maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems. \n\nTo see a few specific types of blogs look here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
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Do you mean like LiveJournal or Blogger?
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noooo!!! a blog is smthng totally different.. it is an online diary!!! where u put on how u feel or whatever u wanna write and others can see it...\nA blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people. \nA blog (or weblog) is a website in which items are posted and displayed with the newest at the top. Like other media, blogs often focus on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. Some blogs function as online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Since its appearance in 1995, blogging has emerged as a popular means of communication, affecting public opinion and mass media around the world. [1]\n\nBlogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software on regular web hosting services.\n\nThe 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\nTitle - main title, or headline, of the post. \nBody - main content of the post. \nComments - comments added by readers \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\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.
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Blogs not always are for fun. They can have articles and opinions about interesting topics. I have one about Online Marketing with articles and tools, and I dont pretend to be funny there.\n\nGisela Santibanez
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A blog is an online (internet) journal or diary that is open for public viewing and comment.  Often picture are added to this regular online entry.
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A blog is short for the word "weblog". Now what is a blog?\nWell you can go to www.blog.com and sign up for a blog or look at others, but if you want a definition here it is:\n\nDefinitions of blog on the Web:\n\nBlog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.\nwww.bytowninternet.com/glossary\n\nA blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.\nwww.conceptwebsites.com/SEO/common-terms.htm\n\nAn online Journal.\nmatra.sourceforge.net/misc/glossary.php\n\nA blog is information that is instantly published to a Web site. Blog scripting allows someone to automatically post information to a Web site. The information first goes to a blogger Web site. Then the information is automatically inserted into a template tailored for your Web site.\nmason.gmu.edu/~montecin/netterms.htm\n\nA short form for weblog, a frequent and chronological publication of comments and thoughts on the web. They usually include philosophical reflections, opinions on the Internet and social or political issues.\nwww.epolitix.com/NR/exeres/0CE8163A-7446-43D7-A038-91C95E078E97,frameless.htm\n\na public web site where users post informal journals of their thoughts, comments, and philosophies, updated frequently and normally reflecting the views of the blog's creator.\nwww.worldwidelearn.com/elearning-essentials/elearning-glossary.htm
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A blog, or "web log" is where the Internet-using public can go to post their thoughts, comments, links, etc. for the whole world to see. Some people use blogs as a sounding board while others provide useful information or a means to communicate with members of their family or with friends. \n\nTwo of the more popular blogging companies are MySpace and Blogger.
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Funny, I was wondering the same thing myself, a year ago.\n\nAnd it's a stupid word, lol...\n\nOK, here goes: "blog" is short for "weBLOG", which is just a log (of events/ideas/thoughts) that you post on the web. You can post your "blog" via a host like blogger.com, yahoo360 or my personal favorite, journalspace. I prefer to use the phrase "online journal" instead of blog, because that's what mine usually resemble, to me. But alot of people use blogs to post current events, news stories, gossip or other items of interest.\n\nThere are many different kinds of blogs, in that way, even "photoblogs", where people like to just post their favorite pictures, with little or no accompanying words.\n\nBlogging is one of those things that are actually alot more appealing when you do them, rather than when you hear them described, by far. Probably has something to do with just hearing the word "blog". Ugh. lol
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it means web log, the short version = blog.  It's when someone writes an online journal with thoughts, experiences, gossip, whatever.
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Essentially yes. it is the same as a web site. A blog typically is space on the net where you can comment on whatver you want to.