A blog is a regularly updated Web site that collects chronological texts or articles from one or more authors, the most recent one appearing first, where the author always retains the freedom of creating everything he wants.
This blog or weblog English word comes from the words ‘web’ and ‘log’, meaning the last one diary. Normally, every blog comes to show us the personality of its autor, because of the freedom he has in order to create and write everything he thinks is interesting.
It is possible to establish a dialogue in a blog because its readers can write comments talking about it, and the autor can also answer to that comments he receives. But it is the autor that chooses who can make a comment about his article and who cannot do it, existing tools which restrict the access to some people.
There are many kind of blogs: journalistic, personal, politic blogs….. and they are each day more common and popular, being nowadays more than 100 million of blogs. They use to combine text, different images and many link to other pages or sites. And it is thought that this kind of pages will be more important in the future than they are now.
References:
- Blog (15th January, 2010). In Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20.06, 28th January, 2010 from: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
- Marketing Terms (2009) Blogs. Retrieved 20.09, 28th January, 2010 from: http://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/blog/
- What is a blog? Problogger. (5th February, 2005). Retrieved 20.11, 28th January, 2010 from: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/02/05/what-is-a-blog/
