Tuesday, April 3, 2012

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.