Monday, June 2, 2008

What's a Blog?

My friend Lindsay had no idea what a Blog was.

According to Wikipedia...

"A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a 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), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio(podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs. With the advent of video blogging, the word blog has taken on an even looser meaning of any bit of media wherein the subject expresses his opinion or simply talks about something."

So there you go!

I've been wanting to start a blog for a while, but I thought I wouldn't really know what to say... then a friend was telling Lindsay and I about hers, so I thought I'd at least try!

Considering I want to be a journalist, I figure it couldn't hurt to start writing about getting a life.

And the quote about life under the title is actually a fortune I got at PF Changs recently. :-)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i'm glad it said "your love OF life" and not "your love life". ;o) cuz that wouldn't be very helpful for anyone.