11 Facts About Web blogs

1.

Blog is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries.

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2.

Many Web blogs provide commentary on a particular subject or topic, ranging from philosophy, religion, and arts to science, politics, and sports.

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3.

In education, Web blogs can be used as instructional resources; these are referred to as eduWeb blogs.

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4.

Early blogs were simply manually updated components of common Websites.

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5.

In 1995, the "Online Diary" on the Ty, Inc Web blogs site was produced and updated manually before any blogging programs were available.

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6.

Evolution of electronic and software tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of Web blogs articles posted in reverse chronological order made the publishing process feasible for a much larger and less technically-inclined population.

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7.

An early milestone in the rise in importance of Web blogs came in 2002, when many bloggers focused on comments by US Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott.

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8.

Similarly, Web blogs were among the driving forces behind the "Rathergate" scandal.

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9.

Web blogs blogged about unreleased products and company finances a week before the company's earnings announcement.

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10.

Web blogs was fired two days after he complied with his employer's request to remove the sensitive material from his blog.

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11.

Web blogs was one of the first journalists to point out that a large portion of bloggers are professionals and that a well-written blog can help attract employers.

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