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What is Blog?

Posted: March 14, 2010 in Uncategorized
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Brother Charles (oldest brother) tells me he is anti-blog.  “What the heck is blog anyways?! Where do you get blog from? What does that even mean? Why don’t you kids speak english, or german, or something that the rest of us can understand”

Begs the question: What is a Blog?

Wikipedia says: A blog (a contraction of the term “web log“)[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.

So there you go brother Charles.

Now here’s the truth from urbandictionary.com: n. Short for weblog.
A meandering, blatantly uninteresting online diary that gives the author the illusion that people are interested in their stupid, pathetic life. Consists of such riveting entries as “homework sucks” and “I slept until noon today.”

Oh and one more thing: