Blog

Blog is a web application in which its user can insert posts. These contributions are wrote by only one editor on only one Web page. But that is not an excact rule as demonstrated on PeopleLovePeople.

Blog posts are usually displayed in reversed chronological order, but it depends on the user settings. Most usual then is displaing the most recent posts first. The one operating a blog is called a blogger. The word blog was created from to the English phrase "web log", which means "web diary". This association was later reduced to the word "weblog", and today is used only as blog.

Each blog is focused on an different area, some blogs focus on the quotes, others on stories. Also there are blogs where you can read about your favorite sports or hobby.

There are blogs of all kinds today. Blogs differes not only in themes but also the format. It may be a simple list of links to web sites either long texts.

Posts that appear on the blog, are labeled with the date and time. At present time it offers an overview of the most recent posts in RSS format. You can create blog for either professional or personal presentation of the contributions. According to the survey more and more people set up personal blogs particularly in the age group 16 to 21. Most blogs are based in the United States, theese are followed by Canada, Russia and Australia.

Electronic communities existed prior the internet, but not in such good qualiy as today's blogs. In the past, the AP connection resembled a large room for chat, where various electronic conversation have met. Other electronic predecessors were associations of radio broadcasting community. But the communication with other participants was live or so called eye to eye.

This amateur radios were marked as "glogs". Other popular blog ancestors have been the digital communities typical in various forms. The Usenet for example. Usenet was an electronic mailing list. During 1990 it began to expand software for internet forums abroad, thanks to which were conversations on the topic were created. Also blogers keep their messages on the internet.

Blogging was founded on the principle of a combination of personal web sites with tools that make linking to other pages easier. These tools are called blogroll and TrackBack.

First blogger was Justin Hall. His first blog was launched in 1994, when he was a student of Swarthmore College. The name "weblog" invented Jorn Barger probably in December 1997. But the term shortened to "blog" came from Peter Merholze. Blogs today are launched by younger orolder people to show their experiences.

The blog is a mediator between you and the readers. You become the author of texts on the blog, readers can write comments on it. It depends on the chosen topic. Blog has a rich history that has developed so much that blog became very popular web application.