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What is a blog?

A blog (weblog = web + log) is a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. A typical blog combines text, images, videos, and links to other blogs (blogroll), web pages, and other media related to its topic.

A weblog entry typically consists of the following:

• Title, the main title, or headline, of the post.
• Body, main content of the post.
• Permalink, the URL of the full, individual article.
• Post Date, date and time the post was published.

A weblog entry optionally includes the following:

• Comments, for weblog visitors.
• Categories, subjects that the entry discusses.
• Trackback, links to other sites that refer to the entry.

According to Wikipedia, the term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997, and the short form, "blog", was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog.

As reported by NM Incite, Nielsen/McKinsey company, in State of the Media: U.S. Digital Consumer Report (February 2012), three of the top ten social networks in the U.S. during October 2011 were true blogs (Blogger,WordPress.com, Tumblr), with a combined 80 million unique visitors:

Besides, Social Networks/Blogs garnered the most Internet time overall: