Blogging

A blog is a user-generated website that resembles a journal or diary. Some common examples of sites that let users build ther own blog are LiveJournal, Blogger, and WordPress.

A blog is made up of entries that are displayed in a reverse chronological order and that typically consist of: a title, a date, a body, a permalink and tags. Blogs often provide means of interaction and socialization such as commentaries, trackbacks and blogrolls.

There are two main blogging format standards: RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and Atom. Aggregators that support these formats help people organize multiple subscriptions.

Blogs have become the de facto personal channels of the Web. They are very easy to setup and they help people share ideas, photos (flogs), audio (podcasts), video (vlogs), and presence (microblogging).

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