What is a blog anyway?
As I get the word out about a business blog and how it can benefit a business in so many ways, I still get asked the question, “What is a blog?”
Darren Rowse from Problogger.com has laid it out the best with many definitions about it. See his link here.
Some of the sources who identified what a blog is are from Harvard Law school, online dictionaries, computer “geek” sites, Wikipedia, and so on.
- “a weblog is a hierarchy of text, images and media objects and data, arranged chronologically that can be viewed in an HTML brower.”
- “A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called “blogging”. Individual articles on a blog are called “blog posts,” “posts” or “entries”. A person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”. A blog comprises text, hypertext, images, and links (to other web pages and to video, audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular “area of interest”, such as Washington, D.C.’s political goings-on. Some blogs discuss personal experiences.”
- From “Web log.” A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.”‘
You get the idea. Our own definition adds on to all the above.
“A blog is an ongoing diary of information that is posted in reverse chronological order that serves the purpose of attracting online traffic in a dynamic manner. While attracting this traffic, it allows for the blogger to form a “bond” with its audience to further get feedback and thus result in “community.”
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