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Explanation: blog
short for "weblog", anything on-line that is updated frequently by one or more people that is not owned by a major corporation; at least that's my definition; good examples are re-run, /dan.el.ope/, and bling; also called "on-line journal"
to update or otherwise edit a blog
from Follow Me Here ...:
Unlike a list of "cool links," the links in a blog are "hot", more timely and dated and, as one commentator put it, of "finer granularity." Another maven describes a weblog as "kind of a continual tour, with a human guide whom you get to know".
a good essay on blogs
blogger
one who blogs
the automated blog-publishing tool created by the pyramaniacs at Blogger
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Another definition:
blog
A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.
Information
A 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.
People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate the publishing process.
Blogs are alternatively called web logs or weblogs. However, \"blog\" seems less likely to cause confusion, as \"web log\" can also mean a server\'s log files.
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Another definition of Blog, and this time, directly from google:
A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.
Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules.
In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what\'s new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not.
Since Blogger was launched, almost five years ago, blogs have reshaped the web, impacted politics, shaken up journalism, and enabled millions of people to have a voice and connect with others.
Sorry - let me rephrase that: five minutes ago, I saw that word for the first time in an article about the recently deceased John Peel, which was sent by music magazine Q. Just wondered if you'd seen it there too. (How do you delete these comments?)
I've just seen the word for the first time too - did you get that e-mail from Q?
10:53 Nov 3, 2004
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something else I found
Explanation: This is from a glossary called Colloquiallisms in Babylon.com
blog
1. A Web-based diary of pithy commentary from users, generally focused on a specific subject area; a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies. Contrast with chat and mailing list.
2. to create, to fulfill a weblog
Example, relative words: (<http://www.mootgame.com/ansarchive/l100.html>): 1) When they write the account of the 2004 campaign, it will include at least one word that has never appeared in any presidential history: blog. Whether or not it elects the next president, the blog may be the first innovation from the Internet to make a real difference in election politics. 2) The constellation of opinion called the blogosphere consists, like the stars themselves, partly of gases. This is what makes blogs addictive - that is, both pleasurable and destructive: They're so easy to consume, and so endlessly available. Their second-by-second proliferation means that far more is written than needs to be said about any one thing. To change metaphors for a moment (and to deepen the shame), I gorge myself on these hundreds of pieces of commentary like so much candy into a bloated - yet nervous, sugar-jangled - stupor. Those hours of out-of-body drift leave me with few, if any, tangible thoughts. Blog prose is written in headline form to imitate informal speech, with short emphatic sentences and frequent use of boldface and italics. The entries, sometimes updated hourly, are little spasms of assertion, usually too brief for an argument ever to stand a chance of developing layers of meaning or ramifying into qualification and complication. There's a constant sense that someone (almost always the blogger) is winning and someone else is losing. Everything that happens in the blogosphere - every point, rebuttal, gloat, jeer, or fisk (dismemberment of a piece of text with close analytical reading) - is a knockout punch.
Etymology, history:
Short for "Web Log" ("weblog"), this term refers to a list of journal entries posted on a Web page. Anybody who knows how to create and publish a Web page can publish their own blog. Some Web hosts have made it even easier by creating an interface where users can simply type a text entry and hit "publish" to publish their blog. It is common for someone who maintains a , a personal journal that's shared on the Internet, to refer to the blog as a brain dump (see).
Synonyms:
Web log / weblog, blogger, blogrolling, blogosphere
• vlogger
virtual web logfile rotater/parser; video weblogging
Example:
1) "Vlogger" is a little piece of code he wrote to handle dealing with large amounts of virtualhost logs.
2) In its most basic form, vlogging does not require very hi-tech equipment: a digital video camera, a high-speed connection and a host are all that is needed. ("Guardian", 7 Aug. 2004)
3) Jeff Jarvis, an early champion of vlogging and founder of BuzzMachine.com, a blog that deals with politics and the media, sees great potential in the phenomenon. "Vlogs are a weird, new kind of way that people can document their lives," says Jarvis. ("Time", 19 Apr. 2004)
Etymology, related words:
First we had "web logger", or "blogger" (<http://quinion.com?A27V>), for a person who creates Web pages called "blogs", that contain diary entries detailing their activities, interests or thoughts on life. The concept was extended by adding photographs (often taken using the camera functions of mobile phones, so it's often called "moblogging"), then sound (which some call "audio blogging", though there doesn't seem to be a common abbreviation for it). In the past year or so, some bloggers have experimented with video, taking advantage of cheap digital camcorders to provide a kind of continuing television news report on personal events. Obviously enough, this is called "video blogging" or "video weblogging", "vlogging" for short, with the person creating the "vlog" being the "vlogger". Many observers feel that it will be slow to catch on, because the tools are relatively expensive, video demands too much bandwidth to transmit, and - above all - too few potential vloggers have the technical skills to make watchable recordings. An extension of blogging is to collect, display and store all types of digital information about one's life in a single place for one's family and friends to access. Such a collection has been called a "lifelog", though trendwatching.com recently dubbed it "life caching".
Explanation: blog
short for "weblog", anything on-line that is updated frequently by one or more people that is not owned by a major corporation; at least that's my definition; good examples are re-run, /dan.el.ope/, and bling; also called "on-line journal"
to update or otherwise edit a blog
from Follow Me Here ...:
Unlike a list of "cool links," the links in a blog are "hot", more timely and dated and, as one commentator put it, of "finer granularity." Another maven describes a weblog as "kind of a continual tour, with a human guide whom you get to know".
a good essay on blogs
blogger
one who blogs
the automated blog-publishing tool created by the pyramaniacs at Blogger
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 mins (2004-11-03 10:53:21 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 mins (2004-11-03 10:55:03 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
Another definition:
blog
A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.
Information
A 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.
People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate the publishing process.
Blogs are alternatively called web logs or weblogs. However, \"blog\" seems less likely to cause confusion, as \"web log\" can also mean a server\'s log files.
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 17 hrs 26 mins (2004-11-04 04:16:08 GMT) Post-grading --------------------------------------------------
Another definition of Blog, and this time, directly from google:
A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.
Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules.
In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what\'s new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not.
Since Blogger was launched, almost five years ago, blogs have reshaped the web, impacted politics, shaken up journalism, and enabled millions of people to have a voice and connect with others.
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