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What's a BLOG anyway?
by
Norm Léveillée

Thanks to two people, Jacques L'Heureux and Juliana L'Heureux, I now know what a "blog" is. Do you? Read on...

I wrote to Juliana asking her.. "...what does the term "blog" mean and where did it come from and why is it used?"

Juliana wrote back: " Let's ask Jacques if he can help us out here. "Blog" is definitely an e-related word but I really can't recall its origins. Maybe Jacques can help?"

Jacques wrote to both of us:

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.

Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software on regular web hosting services. In the early 21st Century, blogging has quickly emerged as a popular and important means of communication, affecting public opinion and mass media around the world.

For more information, check out Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

A good example would be my blog for the Franco-American community at

http://francoamericanconnection.blogspot.com/

Juliana wrote again to me:

You might want to read my recent blog opinion piece about the Medicare Part D benefit becoming a drug company cash cow as more drugs become OTC.
http://oneturkeyrun.blogspot.com/

My newest blog "United Arab Emirates- The Dubai Port Deal and My Home Town"

http://oneturkeyrun.blogspot.com/

So now, I know what a "blog" is (I think!). Do you?

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