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A '''blog''' (a [[Clipping (morphology)|truncation]] of "'''weblog'''")<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html|title=Weblogs: A History And Perspective|last=Blood|first=Rebecca|date=September 7, 2000|access-date=September 2, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530144950/http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html|archive-date=May 30, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> is an informational [[website]] published on the [[World Wide Web]] consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in [[Reverse chronology|reverse chronological order]] so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the [[web page]]. Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual,{{Citation needed|date=May 2014}} occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic. In the 2010s, "multi-author blogs" (MABs) emerged, featuring the writing of multiple [[Author|authors]] and sometimes professionally [[Editing|edited]]. MABs from [[newspaper]]s, other [[News media|media outlet]]s, universities, [[think tank]]s, [[advocacy group]]s, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog [[Web traffic|traffic]]. The rise of [[Twitter]] and other "[[microblogging]]" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the [[news media]]. ''Blog'' can also be used as a verb, meaning ''to maintain or add content to a blog''.

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==History==

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[[File:Eastcampusfire glog crop.png|thumb|left|An early example of a "diary" style blog consisting of text and images transmitted wirelessly in [[Real-time computing|real-time]] from a [[wearable computer]] with [[head-up display]], February 22, 1995]]

The term "weblog" was coined by [[Jorn Barger]]<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://archive.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/news/2007/12/blog_anniversary |title=After 10 Years of Blogs, the Future's Brighter Than Ever |access-date=June 5, 2008 | magazine=Wired |date=December 17, 2007}}</ref> on December 17, 1997. The short form "blog" was coined by [[Peter Merholz]], who jokingly broke the word ''weblog'' into the phrase ''we blog'' in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in May 1999.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6794172 |title=It's the links, stupid |newspaper=The Economist |date=April 20, 2006 |access-date=June 5, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://peterme.com/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991013021124/http://peterme.com/index.html |archive-date=October 13, 1999 |title=Peterme.com |last=Merholz |first=Peter |publisher=[[Internet Archive]] |year=1999 |access-date=June 5, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kottke.org/03/08/its-weblog-not-web-log|last=Kottke |first=Jason|author-link=Jason Kottke|title=It's 'weblog' not 'web log'|work=[[kottke.org]]|date=August 26, 2003|access-date=June 5, 2008}}</ref> Shortly thereafter, [[Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur)|Evan Williams]] at [[Pyra Labs]] used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog", meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' [[Blogger (service)|Blogger]] product, leading to the popularization of the terms.<ref>[http://www.viralblogcontent.com/Origins_of__22Blog_22_and__22Blogger_22.pdf Origins of "Blog" and "Blogger"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103083257/http://www.viralblogcontent.com/Origins_of__22Blog_22_and__22Blogger_22.pdf |date=November 3, 2014 }}, American Dialect Society Mailing List (April 20, 2008).</ref>

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* [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/lcwa/html/lawlb/lawlb-overview.html Law Library Legal Blawgs Web Archive] from the U.S. [[Library of Congress]]

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