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A blog is an informational website featuring informal diary-style posts displayed in reverse chronological order. Initially dominated by individual authors, the 2010s saw the rise of multi-author blogs, which contribute significantly to blog traffic. Blogs serve various purposes, from personal diaries to commentary on diverse subjects, and have evolved to include interactive features that foster social networking among users.

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A blog is an informational website featuring informal diary-style posts displayed in reverse chronological order. Initially dominated by individual authors, the 2010s saw the rise of multi-author blogs, which contribute significantly to blog traffic. Blogs serve various purposes, from personal diaries to commentary on diverse subjects, and have evolved to include interactive features that foster social networking among users.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of "weblog")[1] is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal


diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological
order so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. In the 2000s, blogs were
often the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single
subject or topic. In the 2010s, multi-author blogs (MABs) emerged, featuring the writing of multiple
authors, sometimes professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets,
universities, think tanks, advocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing
quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs
and single-author blogs into the news media. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain
or add content to a blog.

The emergence and growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing
tools that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users who did not have much
experience with HTML or computer programming. Previously, knowledge of such technologies as
HTML and File Transfer Protocol had been required to publish content on the Web, and early Web
users therefore tended to be hackers and computer enthusiasts. As of the 2010s, the majority are
interactive Web 2.0 websites, allowing visitors to leave online comments, and it is this interactivity
that distinguishes them from other static websites.[2] In that sense, blogging can be seen as a form
of social networking service. Indeed, bloggers not only produce content to post on their blogs but
also often build social relations with their readers and other bloggers.[3] Blog owners or authors
often moderate and filter online comments to remove hate speech or other offensive content. There
are also high-readership blogs which do not allow comments.

Many blogs provide commentary on a particular subject or topic, ranging from philosophy, religion,
and arts to science, politics, and sports. Others function as more personal online diaries or online
brand advertising of a particular individual or company. A typical blog combines text, digital images,
and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Most blogs are primarily
textual, although some focus on art (art blogs), photographs (photoblogs), videos (video blogs or
vlogs), music (MP3 blogs), and audio (podcasts). In education, blogs can be used as instructional
resources; these are referred to as edublogs. Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring
very short posts.

Blog and blogging are now loosely used for content creation and sharing on social media, especially
when the content is long-form and one creates and shares content on a regular basis, so one could

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