What is a BLOG?

Blogging like a sir (Photo from Aylin Vedad
of thedailyposh.blogspot.com)

As the title shows, this is a manual about blog. And even most of us know what that means, its is always better to know the definition and what are its coverage. We will take this part by part so it won't bore you. As the word itself has become a very general word used in many ways and forms and might have a thousand books written just for its definition. 

Blog might have a lot of etymologies, one of which according to wikipedia, came from the world "weblog":

The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999. Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.

MTB: The Most Comprehensive and Most Simple Guide to Blogging

This 2012, the internet has really blossomed into a very wide and diverse field where almost everyone is aware and present today. And every second counts with billions to trillions of data being shared everyday. It has become a necessity of life as it satisfy the social interaction of man. And with almost 7 billion people in the world, internet users are growing exponentially faster that the birth rate.

With the internet as the primary source of news, entertainment and social networking, the other potential are being tapped for a lot of reason and actually one of them is social media and blogging. This new blog Manual to Blog is a spin off blog from Manual To Lyf which has been on the net since 2006. This new blog will help people who are interested to know about how blog works and helps one about the in and outs of the blogging. Some of which are (1) steps to create a blog; (2) Why you should blog; (3) Blogging styles and etiquette and many other topics.