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What is a blog?
me | 9/13/04 | Me

Posted on 09/13/2004 11:57:25 AM PDT by In God I trust

I don't want to sound stupid, but can someone please tell me what a blog is? It's a new word I keep hearing in relation to something on the web. Thanks for your help with this out of touch freeper.


TOPICS: Word For The Day
KEYWORDS: blog; blogs

1 posted on 09/13/2004 11:57:25 AM PDT by In God I trust
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To: In God I trust

Short for weblog - web log - online journal.


2 posted on 09/13/2004 11:58:57 AM PDT by kenth (Even John Kerry's recreation depends on which way the wind is blowing...)
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To: In God I trust

Thanks for asking...I've been wondering for the longest time, and just hadn't asked yet. Now I know. :-) "web-log".


3 posted on 09/13/2004 12:00:08 PM PDT by hiredhand
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To: In God I trust

Yes. The traditional media outlets have recently lumped all of us under the term "bloggers", but FR is technically not a blog.


4 posted on 09/13/2004 12:03:37 PM PDT by Route66 (America's Mainstreet)
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To: In God I trust

A blog - Web Log - is a sort of an online diary. A Web page where folks make daily entries. It differs from a Web Site, in that a blog is usually just a single page - a Web site can hold any number of pages.


5 posted on 09/13/2004 12:03:48 PM PDT by Old Sarge (ZOT 'em all, let MOD sort 'em out!)
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To: hiredhand

Yeah. I think it was both intentionally and unintentionally viewed as 'we blog', thus the rise of the word 'blog'.


6 posted on 09/13/2004 12:06:40 PM PDT by kenth (Even John Kerry's recreation depends on which way the wind is blowing...)
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To: In God I trust

http://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/blog/


7 posted on 09/13/2004 12:07:46 PM PDT by cowboyway (My Hero's have always been cowboys.)
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To: Route66

I'll add to my last post that it kind of bugs me that they keep calling us bloggers. There is nothing wrong with a blog, but Free Republic is a lot more than a blog. It's a powerful interactive news service that runs on the engine of it's members. There is nothing that rivals it and it has proved that news is more than something we just have to read, wring our hands over, and accept. Around here, it's a contact sport.


8 posted on 09/13/2004 12:19:01 PM PDT by Route66 (America's Mainstreet)
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To: In God I trust

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/616045/posts


9 posted on 09/13/2004 12:24:27 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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Thank you all. Freepers are great folks.


10 posted on 09/13/2004 1:46:45 PM PDT by In God I trust
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