What Is a Blog?

The word blog (an abridgment of the term web log)
"Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
A Blog is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order.
The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.

A typical blog combines
Text
images,
links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.

Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media.

Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software, such as
WordPress,
Movable Type,
Blogger
LiveJournal,
or on regular web hosting services.


https://www.blogger.com/start

http://www.livejournal.com/

http://www.movabletype.org/

http://wordpress.org/

Summery / Q+A

Q- What is the word “blog” refer to?
Q- Name three things a Blog can do?
Q- Name two blog websites?

How to set up your blog

We want you to make your own blog
You need to create a gmail or Google mail email account.
This will be your username and password to log into your blogger.com account.
Use your FULL NAME when making your log in email for your blog
So if you name is Joe Blogs then please can you use
Joe.blogs@gmail.com
We also want your blog address to be something like this as well,
http://joeblogs.blogspot.com

The . characters are not allowed

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