Blog

The word “blog” has come to describe a website that is used to promote an individual’s views on life, politics, social issues, and in more recent times where professional information is shared and when authorized participants can contribute with comments or more information for readers and/or authors of the blog.

The term “blog” is a combined and shortened description of a web log. Blogs have also transitioned into a verb of sorts as well- as in ‘I’m going to blog about this or that.’ Very recently mainstream media has jumped on the blog bandwagon. Newspapers, network and cable news outlets, as well as, political parties, and social or environmental rights groups also have transitioned their web presence into popular blog platforms, such as Word Press, Tumblir, and Blogger, to name just a few.

Blogs can be managed by one or many authors and professionally edited for form and content. Multi-author blogs or MABs are usually those from newspapers or other news media outlets, universities, think tanks, or other types of shared interest groups and account for a good portion of blog traffic.