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What is a blog?	abirl	06/24/03
And what is blogging? Thank you. Abir
Clarification/Follow-up by Jim.McGinness on 06/24/03 10:44 am: The word "blog" is short for "web log". The idea of a web log is for someone to keep a sort of online diary that lists things that they found interesting on the Web. The earliest web logs were like this: just links to web sites with a few comments. Now, the commentary has become at least as important as the links. There are a few very famous blogs: Instapundit http://www.instapundit.com/ Andrew Sullivan http://www.andrewsullivan.com/ James Lileks http://www.lileks.com/ Little Green Footballs http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php to name just a few. There are several different flavors of software available that make the creation and maintenance of a blog easy. One of the most poplular for beginners is "Blogger", whose web sites can tell you a lot more about what blogging is and will even let you start your own blog for free. http://www.blogger.com/ http://www.blogspot.com/ Clarification/Follow-up by abirl on 06/24/03 10:36 pm: Thank you very much. I think you should have posted this as an answer instead of a clarification/follow-up because this way I can't give it the 5-star rating it deserves. Regards, Abir
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Jim.McGinness		06/25/03
Sorry, I was experimenting. I'm new on Answerway, but long-experienced on other question-answering sites. I don't answer questions for the sake of points or stars. It looks like posted answers get stovepiped and take an extra click each to see. Clarification/Follow-up responses all get displayed together with the question, so are a lot easier to see.

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