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Understanding Blogs: Definition and Purpose

Blogs are websites where journal-style entries are displayed in chronological order, essentially making them an online diary. While originally used for personal accounts, blogs can also report news and facts like a journal. The term "blog" comes from combining "web" and "log" to refer to the website containing written content that people use to voice their opinions on news, media, and events.

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Understanding Blogs: Definition and Purpose

Blogs are websites where journal-style entries are displayed in chronological order, essentially making them an online diary. While originally used for personal accounts, blogs can also report news and facts like a journal. The term "blog" comes from combining "web" and "log" to refer to the website containing written content that people use to voice their opinions on news, media, and events.

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A blog is a website where entries are written in journal-format.

That is, entries are submitted and


displayed in chronological order. Essentially, a blog is an online diary. It is used to record
personal accounts, just as a written diary is used.

However, a blog can also be used for the reporting of news and fact-based stories, much like a journal.
The term blog is a combination of two words:

Web /RJ :HEORJ + = .

blog
The term Weblog was then condensed to the term , which is widely used today.

The term blog can be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog, or as a noun,
as in the website containing the written content itself. Blogging has become more and more popular
and more widely used, but is, however, just now seeing its potential. Between news, media, personal logs,
current events, popular culture, etc., blogging brings about openness and a new free forum
for people to voice their opinions.

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