Blog? What's that?

Blogs have been around for some time now, but I have never really taken the opportunity to research what they are all about. This is yet another reason why I have really enjoyed completing this project. It has forced me to take the time to sit down and research the technologies that I have never made the time for before.

The word "blog" is short for the term "web log." A blog is essentially an online journal, where posts are written by an individual and can be commented on by select users, depending on the individual's preference. Blogs began, and are still used, as online diaries. Users can put details of their daily lives out there for the world to see. Today, the use of blogs has expanded to anything from corporate businesses and political campaigns to in depth discussions of just about any topic imaginable. Although blogs consist mainly of text, users can now post pictures, as well and video and audio files. Blogger and Edublogs are popular blogging sites to use. As an educator, I like the feature in Edublogs that sends comments to the administrator before posting to the web, but I am drawn to the ease using Blogger.