It is basically an on-line journal of sorts, a form of expression that is defined by each individual blogger. According to the Jargon File 4.1.0:
blog n.
[common] Short for `weblog’, an on-line web-zine or diary (usually with facilities for reader comments and discussion threads) made accessible through the World Wide Web. This term is widespread and readily forms derivatives, of which the best known may be `blogosphere’ (the hyperlinked totality of all blogs and the culture that surrounds it).
Blogs can be personal or professional, topical or random, updated hourly or once a month or longer – it is all up to the individual.
MarketingTerms.com has some good links. This is an interesting article about one person’s experience.
I’ll update this post periodically with new information.
UPDATE (2003-03-07): Here is an nice article from the New Zealand News on the addictiveness of blogs for both the reader and author.
UPDATE (2003-04-15): Another good explanation.
I’d like to install a blog on my site. Do you know how to do it.
Paolo
Paolo – http://www.cafelog.com/
I’d recommend using WordPress actually, but there are a bunch of good blog systems out there.
I would recommend MovableType – http://www.movabletype.org 🙂
MoveableType is nice, and I’m sure it is the right choice for many people. Since I’m a contributor on the WordPress project, I am obviously somewhat biased. 😉
Does anybody know of a Free Photo Blog app that will allow me to batch process photos (create a Web Album) but also provide functionality for public feedback from friends?
Kinda “Web Album Creator” (www.galleriasoftware.com) meets a Blog.
Thanks in advance!
Hozer:
You can use WordPress to do PhotoLogging, all you need todo is add a few simples lines into the code and the rest will be done for you.
I’d recommend Cutenews – http://www.cutephp.com/ – for blogging if you have a PHP-enabled server (safemode/mysql not an issue)
If you want to make a nice photo album and you want to batch process the pictures i recommend using Coppermine Photo Gallery (CPG) whch is freeware and can be found at http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/
For a working demo take a look at http://kibje.com/fotos
Have fun !
Ejal
I know some nice blog script like wordpress. they are
expression engine, pivot, plog, bmachine, nucleus. but, they don’t come with integrated photo gallery.
Well Citibank is a troubled bank. The Indian lady and the dropped phone calls. The late charges that takes a month to 2 months to get taken off. Well All the stories are the same. We asked for them to sell our loan. They refused so we refinanced with Chase. Who also has problems – they forgot to pay our taxes for 4 months and penalties. I thinkl all these banks are all problems in one way or another. But Citibank is the worst.
You can pay a payment inside the citibank and they won’t apply it for 10 days. It Is a joke…Good luck to all who mortgage there. It takes a threat of a lawsuit to get them to do business.
Congrats, Alex!!! You made Feeblogs Top 500 Blog List! WEEEEE!
http://feedster.com/top500.php check it out.
We’re all proud of you. Good work and keep going strong!
Interesting article. I use Word Press and am still struggling with it. It’s hard to try to learn a whole new language after all of these years.
Cheers,
Jeff
Movable Type and Word Press are the most popular ones. Movable Type is PERL based and more complecated to install. Word Press is PHP and MySQL based and very easy to install.
Blogger is a great one. So is word press.
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