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{{DISPLAYTITLE:blog!}}<dl><dd><i>For the <a class="mw-redirect" href="/AboutUs" rel="nofollow" title="AboutUs">AboutUs</a> Weblog, please see <a class="external text" href="http://blog.aboutus.org" rel="nofollow">Blog.AboutUs.org</a>.</i></dd>
<dd><i>For the <a class="mw-redirect" href="/AboutUs" rel="nofollow" title="AboutUs">AboutUs</a> Weblog, please see <a class="external text" href="http://blog.aboutus.org" rel="nofollow">Blog.AboutUs.org</a>.</i></dd>
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</dl>A Weblog (also known as a blog) is an interactive website providing for commentary, news, personal diary and other information presented in a chronological (or reverse chronological) order. A common way for interaction between the writer (blogger) and the readers is the ability of blogs to provide reader comments on weblog posts. They often include text, images and links to other web pages, related media or other weblogs. Weblogging software is often characterized by the ability for users to easily create great looking weblogs without needing to learn complex markup code.
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<p>People who write blogs are often known as "Bloggers" (which is a differentiation from the blogging service/site <a href="/Blogger.com" rel="nofollow" title="Blogger.com">Blogger.com</a>.</p>
 
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<p>A Weblog (also known as a blog) is an interactive website providing for commentary, news, personal diary and other information presented in a chronological (or reverse chronological) order. A common way for interaction between the writer (blogger) and the readers is the ability of blogs to provide reader comments on weblog posts. They often include text, images and links to other web pages, related media or other weblogs. Weblogging software is often characterized by the ability for users to easily create great looking weblogs without needing to learn complex markup code.</p>
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<p>People who write blogs are often known as &quot;Bloggers&quot; (which is a differentiation from the blogging service/site <a href="/Blogger.com" rel="nofollow" title="Blogger.com">Blogger.com</a>.</p>
 
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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="#About_Weblog_vs_Blog_terminilogy"><span class="tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="toctext"><span>About Weblog vs Blog terminilogy</span></span></a>
 
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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="#references"><span class="tocnumber">5.1.1</span> <span class="toctext"><span>references</span></span></a></li>
 
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Forums_and_software_for_blogging" rel="nofollow"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Forums and software for blogging</span></a></li>
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<ul><li><a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Weblog.com&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Weblog.com (page does not exist)">Weblog.com</a>, a free blog hosting service that allows users to easily create their own weblogs on the <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Weblog.com&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Weblog.com (page does not exist)">Weblog.com</a> website.</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Forums_and_software_for_blogging"><span class="mw-headline" id="Forums_and_software_for_blogging">Forums and software for blogging</span></span></h2>
 
 
 
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<li><a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Weblog.com&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Weblog.com (page does not exist)">Weblog.com</a>, a free blog hosting service that allows users to easily create their own weblogs on the <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Weblog.com&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Weblog.com (page does not exist)">Weblog.com</a> website.</li>
 
 
<li><a href="/Blogger.com" rel="nofollow" title="Blogger.com">Blogger.com</a>, a service owned by <a href="/Google.com" rel="nofollow" title="Google.com">Google</a> that allows users to easily create their own weblogs on the <a href="/Blogger.com" rel="nofollow" title="Blogger.com">Blogger</a> website.</li>
 
<li><a href="/Blogger.com" rel="nofollow" title="Blogger.com">Blogger.com</a>, a service owned by <a href="/Google.com" rel="nofollow" title="Google.com">Google</a> that allows users to easily create their own weblogs on the <a href="/Blogger.com" rel="nofollow" title="Blogger.com">Blogger</a> website.</li>
 
<li><a href="/Blog.com" rel="nofollow" title="Blog.com">Blog.com</a>, another popular blog network that allows users to easily create free blogs.</li>
 
<li><a href="/Blog.com" rel="nofollow" title="Blog.com">Blog.com</a>, another popular blog network that allows users to easily create free blogs.</li>
<li><a href="/WordPress.com" rel="nofollow" title="WordPress.com">WordPress.com</a> is another website hosting personal blogs, using the freely available <a href="/WordPress.org" rel="nofollow" title="WordPress.org">WordPress</a> software which can be downloaded from <a href="/WordPress.org" rel="nofollow" title="WordPress.org">WordPress.org</a> <i>(note that the &quot;.com&quot; is for hosting of blogs, the &quot;.org&quot; is for downloading the software to host your own blog)</i>.</li>
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<li><a href="/WordPress.com" rel="nofollow" title="WordPress.com">WordPress.com</a> is another website hosting personal blogs, using the freely available <a href="/WordPress.org" rel="nofollow" title="WordPress.org">WordPress</a> software which can be downloaded from <a href="/WordPress.org" rel="nofollow" title="WordPress.org">WordPress.org</a> <i>(note that the ".com" is for hosting of blogs, the ".org" is for downloading the software to host your own blog)</i>.</li>
<li><a class="new" href="/index.php?title=MoveableType.org&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="MoveableType.org (page does not exist)">MoveableType.org</a> is another popular software package for weblogging.</li>
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<li><a class="new" href="/index.php?title=MoveableType.org&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="MoveableType.org (page does not exist)">MoveableType.org</a> is another popular software package for weblogging.</li>
<li><a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Typepad.com&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Typepad.com (page does not exist)">Typepad.com</a> offers a blogging service with a variety of plans for users.</li>
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<li><a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Typepad.com&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Typepad.com (page does not exist)">Typepad.com</a> offers a blogging service with a variety of plans for users.</li>
 
<li>Many domain hosters now offer easy to install weblogs as part of their hosting package; additionally other social networking sites like <a href="/MySpace.com" rel="nofollow" title="MySpace.com">MySpace.com</a> offer some blog-like functions for their members.</li>
 
<li>Many domain hosters now offer easy to install weblogs as part of their hosting package; additionally other social networking sites like <a href="/MySpace.com" rel="nofollow" title="MySpace.com">MySpace.com</a> offer some blog-like functions for their members.</li>
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<ul><li><a href="/WordPress.org" rel="nofollow" title="WordPress.org">WordPress.org</a>'s <a class="external text" href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging" rel="nofollow">Intro to Blogging</a></li>
 
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<li><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" rel="nofollow" title="wikipedia:Blog">Wikipedia's Blog Article</a></li>
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<li><a href="/WordPress.org" rel="nofollow" title="WordPress.org">WordPress.org</a>&#39;s <a class="external text" href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging" rel="nofollow">Intro to Blogging</a></li>
 
<li><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" rel="nofollow" title="wikipedia:Blog">Wikipedia&#39;s Blog Article</a></li>
 
 
<li><a href="/OJR.org" rel="nofollow" title="OJR.org">Online Journalism Review</a> has a <a class="external text" href="http://www.ojr.org/ojr/images/blog_software_comparison.cfm" rel="nofollow">Blog software comparison chart</a> from May 2006.</li>
 
<li><a href="/OJR.org" rel="nofollow" title="OJR.org">Online Journalism Review</a> has a <a class="external text" href="http://www.ojr.org/ojr/images/blog_software_comparison.cfm" rel="nofollow">Blog software comparison chart</a> from May 2006.</li>
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</ul><h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_AboutUs_Weblog"><span class="mw-headline" id="The_AboutUs_Weblog"><span class="mw-headline" id="The_AboutUs_Weblog">The <a class="mw-redirect" href="/AboutUsWeblog.org" rel="nofollow" title="AboutUsWeblog.org">AboutUs Weblog</a></span></span></span></h2>
 
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<p>Here at <a class="mw-redirect" href="/AboutUs" rel="nofollow" title="AboutUs">AboutUs</a>, we have our own weblog at <a class="external text" href="http://blog.aboutus.org" rel="nofollow">Blog.AboutUs.org</a>. You can always get to it by clicking "more links" and then "<a class="external text" href="http://blog.aboutus.org" rel="nofollow">Our Weblog</a>" at the upper left on our site.</p>
 
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<p>Here at <a class="mw-redirect" href="/AboutUs" rel="nofollow" title="AboutUs">AboutUs</a>, we have our own weblog at <a class="external text" href="http://blog.aboutus.org" rel="nofollow">Blog.AboutUs.org</a>. You can always get to it by clicking &quot;more links&quot; and then &quot;<a class="external text" href="http://blog.aboutus.org" rel="nofollow">Our Weblog</a>&quot; at the upper left on our site.</p>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="About_Weblog_vs_Blog_terminilogy"><span class="mw-headline" id="About_Weblog_vs_Blog_terminilogy"><span class="mw-headline" id="About_Weblog_vs_Blog_terminilogy">About Weblog vs Blog terminilogy</span></span></span></h3>
 
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Naming"><span class="mw-headline" id="Naming">Naming</span></span></h2>
 
 
 
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="About_Weblog_vs_Blog_terminilogy"><span class="mw-headline" id="About_Weblog_vs_Blog_terminilogy">About Weblog vs Blog terminilogy</span></span></h3>
 
 
 
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<p>Hi Mark,</p>
 
<p>Hi Mark,</p>
 
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<p>How are you? Havent had a chance to touch base with you, It seems like a long while. Anyways, ive noticed this long enough that i felt like communicating about it. Especially now that we have transitioned to <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=blog.aboutus.org&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="blog.aboutus.org (page does not exist)">blog.aboutus.org</a> How about changing the terminology from Weblog to Blog on the main page and also in the useful links? I think keeping up with the latest terminology projects our image as a friendly, innovative, fresh and uptodate with the latest trends company.</p>
<p>How are you? Havent had a chance to touch base with you, It seems like a long while. Anyways, ive noticed this long enough that i felt like communicating about it. Especially now that we have transitioned to <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=blog.aboutus.org&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="blog.aboutus.org (page does not exist)">blog.aboutus.org</a> How about changing the terminology from Weblog to Blog on the main page and also in the useful links? I think keeping up with the latest terminology projects our image as a friendly, innovative, fresh and uptodate with the latest trends company.</p>
 
 
 
 
<p>If you are interested, see:</p>
 
<p>If you are interested, see:</p>
 
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<ul><li><a class="external text" href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=blogs" rel="nofollow">Search trend of 'blog'</a></li>
 
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<li><a class="external text" href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=weblogs" rel="nofollow">Search trend of 'weblog'</a></li>
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<li><a class="external text" href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=blogs%2C+weblogs&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0" rel="nofollow">Comparison of both</a></li>
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</ul><p>What do you think? --<a href="/User:Saad_Saeed" rel="nofollow" title="User:Saad Saeed">Sa'ad</a> <sup>: <a href="/User_talk:Saad_Saeed" rel="nofollow" title="User talk:Saad Saeed">talk</a> : <a href="/Special:EmailUser/Saad_Saeed" rel="nofollow" title="Special:EmailUser/Saad Saeed">email</a> : <a href="/Special:Contributions/Saad_Saeed" rel="nofollow" title="Special:Contributions/Saad Saeed">contribs</a> :</sup> 04:17, 14 January 2008 (PST)</p>
<li><a class="external text" href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=weblogs" rel="nofollow">Search trend of &#39;weblog&#39;</a></li>
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<li><a class="external text" href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=blogs%2C+weblogs&amp;ctab=0&amp;geo=all&amp;date=all&amp;sort=0" rel="nofollow">Comparison of both</a></li>
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<p>What do you think? --<a href="/User:Saad_Saeed" rel="nofollow" title="User:Saad Saeed">Sa&#39;ad</a> <sup>: <a href="/User_talk:Saad_Saeed" rel="nofollow" title="User talk:Saad Saeed">talk</a>&nbsp;: <a href="/Special:EmailUser/Saad_Saeed" rel="nofollow" title="Special:EmailUser/Saad Saeed">email</a>&nbsp;: <a href="/Special:Contributions/Saad_Saeed" rel="nofollow" title="Special:Contributions/Saad Saeed">contribs</a>&nbsp;:</sup> 04:17, 14 January 2008 (PST)</p>
 
 
 
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="references"><span class="mw-headline" id="references">references</span></span></h4>
 
 
 
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<p>Some show the mix of the terms. (this is from research I did last summer)</p>
 
<p>Some show the mix of the terms. (this is from research I did last summer)</p>
 
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<dl><dd><a class="external free" href="http://scoble.weblogs.com/blogparody.htm" rel="nofollow">http://scoble.weblogs.com/blogparody.htm</a></dd>
 
 
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<dd><a class="external free" href="http://google.blogspace.com/" rel="nofollow">http://google.blogspace.com/</a></dd>
 
<dd><a class="external free" href="http://google.blogspace.com/" rel="nofollow">http://google.blogspace.com/</a></dd>
 
<dd><a class="external free" href="http://www.weblog.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.weblog.com/</a></dd>
 
<dd><a class="external free" href="http://www.weblog.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.weblog.com/</a></dd>
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<dd><a class="external free" href="http://design.weblogsinc.com/" rel="nofollow">http://design.weblogsinc.com/</a></dd>
 
<dd><a class="external free" href="http://design.weblogsinc.com/" rel="nofollow">http://design.weblogsinc.com/</a></dd>
 
<dd><a class="external free" href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html</a></dd>
 
<dd><a class="external free" href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html</a></dd>
<dd><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog" rel="nofollow" title="wikipedia:Weblog">wikipedia:Weblog</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="/redirects" rel="nofollow" title="redirects">redirects</a> to <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" rel="nofollow" title="wikipedia:Blog">wikipedia:Blog</a>: <i>The term &quot;weblog&quot; was coined by Jorn Barger[8] on 17 December 1997. The short form, &quot;blog,&quot; was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May of 1999.[9][10][11] This was quickly adopted as both a noun and verb (&quot;to blog,&quot; meaning &quot;to edit one&#39;s weblog or to post to one&#39;s weblog&quot;).</i></dd>
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<dd><a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog" rel="nofollow" title="wikipedia:Weblog">wikipedia:Weblog</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="/redirects" rel="nofollow" title="redirects">redirects</a> to <a class="extiw" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" rel="nofollow" title="wikipedia:Blog">wikipedia:Blog</a>: <i>The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger[8] on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May of 1999.[9][10][11] This was quickly adopted as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog").</i></dd>
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For the AboutUs Weblog, please see Blog.AboutUs.org.
A Weblog (also known as a blog) is an interactive website providing for commentary, news, personal diary and other information presented in a chronological (or reverse chronological) order. A common way for interaction between the writer (blogger) and the readers is the ability of blogs to provide reader comments on weblog posts. They often include text, images and links to other web pages, related media or other weblogs. Weblogging software is often characterized by the ability for users to easily create great looking weblogs without needing to learn complex markup code.

People who write blogs are often known as "Bloggers" (which is a differentiation from the blogging service/site Blogger.com.

Forums and software for blogging

 

  • Weblog.com, a free blog hosting service that allows users to easily create their own weblogs on the Weblog.com website.
  • Blogger.com, a service owned by Google that allows users to easily create their own weblogs on the Blogger website.
  • Blog.com, another popular blog network that allows users to easily create free blogs.
  • WordPress.com is another website hosting personal blogs, using the freely available WordPress software which can be downloaded from WordPress.org (note that the ".com" is for hosting of blogs, the ".org" is for downloading the software to host your own blog).
  • MoveableType.org is another popular software package for weblogging.
  • Typepad.com offers a blogging service with a variety of plans for users.
  • Many domain hosters now offer easy to install weblogs as part of their hosting package; additionally other social networking sites like MySpace.com offer some blog-like functions for their members.

Other resources

 

The AboutUs Weblog

 

Here at AboutUs, we have our own weblog at Blog.AboutUs.org. You can always get to it by clicking "more links" and then "Our Weblog" at the upper left on our site.

 

Naming

 

About Weblog vs Blog terminilogy

 

Hi Mark,

How are you? Havent had a chance to touch base with you, It seems like a long while. Anyways, ive noticed this long enough that i felt like communicating about it. Especially now that we have transitioned to blog.aboutus.org How about changing the terminology from Weblog to Blog on the main page and also in the useful links? I think keeping up with the latest terminology projects our image as a friendly, innovative, fresh and uptodate with the latest trends company.

If you are interested, see:

 

What do you think? --Sa'ad : talk : email : contribs : 04:17, 14 January 2008 (PST)

 

references

 

Some show the mix of the terms. (this is from research I did last summer)

 

http://scoble.weblogs.com/blogparody.htm
http://google.blogspace.com/
http://www.weblog.com/
http://www.weblogs.com/
http://www.forumblog.org/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/
http://weblogawards.org/
http://werbach.com/supernova2006new/go/weblog
http://ross.typepad.com/ http://www.tuaw.com/
http://ianmurdock.com/
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/
http://www.rfid-weblog.com/
http://technorati.com/weblog/
http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/
http://design.weblogsinc.com/
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html
wikipedia:Weblog redirects to wikipedia:Blog: The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger[8] on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May of 1999.[9][10][11] This was quickly adopted as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog").

~~ MarkDilley

 

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