A Blog (abbreviation from weblog) is a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.

It can also be described as a personal on-line diary. It gives everybody the possibility to be a published.

By November 2006 at least 80 million Blogs already existed in the world.

Blogs are used for many purposes. Many politicians use them in their work, not least in election campaigns. They have in particular been very important in American politics. Many people also use them to give their comments to events and developments. Or to present and discuss their interests.

You can also use Blogs for dissemination of news. This happened during the Tsunami disaster. And it happens now in Iraq, where American soldiers use Blogs to inform about non-classified events and to corect much of the distorted news, which they believe circulate about the situation in the country.

See more: What is it:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

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A Blog is very easy to start and run. A number of free sites offer programmes and hosting.

One of the biggest is:   www.blogger.com 

You can also easily search for Blogs, which interest you:

Searching Blogs:    http://blogsearch.google.com 

  

How do you follow what's new in the Blogoshere?  It's difficult as so many blogs are added every day - yes every minute.

One very useful instrument is:

WEBLOG.COM        www.weblog.com 

It also gives you updates on podcasts.

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You want to know more about the many different possibilities in blogging?

Try this French owned site out:

SIX APART     www.sixapart.com 

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