•Blog is short for weblog.
•A weblog is usually defined as a personal or noncommercial web site that uses a dated log format (usually with the most recent addition at the top of the page) and contains links to other web sites along with commentary about those sites.
•A Blog is a journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption.
•Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.

•1993 - “Mosaic’s What’s New Page” launched
–http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/old-whats-new/whats-new-0693.htmlwhats-new/whats-new-0693.html
•1997 - Jorn Barger coins the phrase “weblog” and defines it as a self-published list of links of interest updated frequently with the newest entries at the top
•1998 - 23 official blogs existed
•1999 – Pyra launched Blogger.com allowing an easy to use interface for anyone to start up a blog
•2003 – Google buys Pyra, Blogger.com explodes
•2004 – 2004 US Presidential Campaign creates political “blogmania”


•Blogs do 2 things traditional media can’t
–1, they are personal
–2 they do not need a publisher and an editor
•Blogging is changing the media world and could, I think, foment a revolution in how journalism functions in our culture.
•Blogs get priority ranking on Google as the Google algorithm is based on links from website to website
•“Google Bombing”
•RSS distribution

•Blogs do 2 things traditional media can’t
–1, they are personal
–2 they do not need a publisher and an editor
•Blogging is changing the media world and could, I think, foment a revolution in how journalism functions in our culture.
•Blogs get priority ranking on Google as the Google algorithm is based on links from website to website
•“Google Bombing”
•RSS distribution

•Readership of blogs rose 58% last year
•7% of online users (or about 8 million people) have their own blog
•38% of all Americans online actually know what a blog is.
•4% of major US corporations have blogs available to the public


•Google Directory
–http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/
•Yahoo Directory
–http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Weblogs/
•http://www.weblogs.com/
•http://portal.eatonweb.com/
•http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/
•http://blogdex.net/
•http://www.blogscanada.ca/directory/
•http://www.canada.com/national/features/blogs/index.html


•http://www.popdex.com/
•http://blogs.salon.com/rankings.html
•http://www.technorati.com/live/top100.html
•http://www.blogstreet.com/top100.html