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  • The Many Uses of Blogs on 2009-09-30
    • A blog, or a weblog, is a website that contains a written record of a person or group's stories, commentaries, advocacy, experiences, and all the other things that one normally records on paper. Blogs have increased in popularity in the past years and people of all ages and generations have become quite addicted to it.
    • Generally, people use blogs to disseminate information. Information can mean any truth or fact, or belief, from any person or groups of persons. The best example for cases like this is the politician. A politician uses his blog to introduce himself to people. Through his blog, he can share stories that reveal his intentions or plan of action. People will be able to get to know him better if he constantly talks about himself in his blog.
  • Blog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on 2009-09-30
    • A blog (a contraction of the term "weblog")[1] is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.


      Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.


      As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.[

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