Blogs

The term "blog" is a contraction of "weblog", which refers to a log of web pages. In December 1997, Jorn Barger started a daily log of interesting web links published in reverse chronological order and named it Robot Wisdom WebLog. Other online publishers soon used the term “weblog” to include the increasing number of websites or web pages that provided frequent short posts of links and comments to other pages in reverse chronological order.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17421022&ps=rs In early 1999, Peter Merholz wrote in a sidebar on the home page of his weblog, Peterme.com, that he decided to pronounce the word "weblog" as “wee-blog” or "blog" for short.http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0804C&L=ADS-L&P=R16795&I=-3

The earliest weblogs could only be created by people who already knew how to code HTML.http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html Online tools which helped users publish weblogs began to emerge between 1998 and 1999.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17421022&ps=rs Pyra Labs, one of the developers of these weblog products, chose to refer to weblogs as "blogs" and to name their own product "Blogger".http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0804C&L=ADS-L&P=R16795&I=-3 Blogger provided a free-form interface which made it easy then for a writer to type in anything from a passing thought to a well-researched essay. The weblogs which were once filters of the web have been increasingly shifted to become journal-style blogs.http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html Blogs are now published with texts, photos, graphics, videos and ever more evolving new features which make them more user-friendly, functionally sophisticated and interactive.http://www.weblogmatrix.org/

Blog software supports the writing, editing, and publishing of all kinds of blogs from beginner to professional level. They often come with design tools as well as publishing and tracking tools. Most software developers provide some free software and free blog hosting which are generally sufficient for users merely keeping their own personal blogs. For people doing business on their blogs, for example professional bloggers or online merchants, more sophisticated software and more space are both available for a fee.http://blog-software-review.toptenreviews.com/http://www.weblogmatrix.org/