What is a Blog?

"Blog" is a contraction of the term "web log", basically a 'journal' of your thoughts, ideas and any information that is kept online. You can blog about anything under the sun, like updating others on your personal life or your opinions on a wide range of topics like music, movies to politics.

Wordpress, Livejournal and Blogger are some of the popular blog hosting websites. They provide simple-to-use blogging systems with many blog templates to choose from, so that even first-time users can easily start their own blogs. Just choose your favourite blog template, write like what you would usually do in your diary or notebook, and press submit - its that simple! Even social networking sites like Friendster and Multiply also boost of blogging features to allow for more interesting interactions among users.

Bloggers typically use blogs to share their thoughts and views with others. Most blog hosting sites provide users with a certain amount of free file hosting storage space online for users to upload their content, so bloggers can add multimedia content such as music, photos and videos to make their blogs look more attractive. Like an organised journal, blog entries (also known as blog posts) can be grouped in chronological order for easy access and archiving.

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