Blog Basics

• Blogs are web pages
• Read in reverse chronological order - just like a log would be read
• Continue to increase in popularity - a new blog is created every second
• Popular in part because of the simple software used to create them
• simple to create
• simple to update
• neatly organized
• free!
• Types of blogs
• Personal
• Topic-specific (gardening to politics)
• Corporate
• Media used with blogs
• Most are text-based
• There also are photo blogs, audio blogs (podcasts), and video blogs (vodcasts)