Weblog (or "web log" or "blog")

A website that’s regularly updated with short postings on some topic or other, which readers can leave comments about. A blog may be similar to a personal diary shared over the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." Blogs are typically updated daily. Postings on a blog are normally arranged in chronological order.
 

Literature:

Bar-Ilan, J. (2005). Information hub blogs. Journal of Information Science, 31(4), 297-307.

Matheson, D. (2004). Weblogs and the epistemology of the news: some trends in online journalism. New Media & Society, 6(4), 443-468.

Ras, E.; Avram, G.; Waterson, P. & Weibelzahl, S. (2005). Using weblogs for knowledge sharing and learning in information spaces. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 11(3), 394-409.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2006). Blog. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog

See also: Internet

Birger Hjørland

Last edited: 05-03-2006

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