What is a Blog?
What is a Blog?
I asked someone this once, and you have to understand, I'm having trouble believing it. It's just an online journal?? That's all? Like a website, but not? Like a message board, but not? I hear about blogs at least 3 to 4 times a day. It has to be more than that... Maybe the person I asked didn't explain it right. So, it's a webpage where people just write opinions?
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http://www.MySpace.com and http://www.Xanga.com are pretty popular, as well.
I use xanga.com, and personally, I don't get what the big deal about it is, but I still love it!
I use xanga.com, and personally, I don't get what the big deal about it is, but I still love it!

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Lazario,
It is indeed basically an online journal. On Xanga you have "buddies" and "blogrings" where you see other people that belong to your school, like certain movies, hate/like certain singers, etc. I wish they could develop the blogrings further into making them into some sort of forum, but Xanga has yet to do that. I am personally obsessed with Xanga.
Others--like Prince Philip--are obsessed with My Space which is a little more advanced. You can write a blog where other people write comments. There's also an email program--you don't actually get a new email address but other My Space users can write private messages to you which are stored in your "inbox." I think there's some sort of blogring idea here too. At My Space there's a higher chance of meeting strangers than at Xanga.
I don't know enough about Live Journal to write about it.
Hope this helps,
Chay
It is indeed basically an online journal. On Xanga you have "buddies" and "blogrings" where you see other people that belong to your school, like certain movies, hate/like certain singers, etc. I wish they could develop the blogrings further into making them into some sort of forum, but Xanga has yet to do that. I am personally obsessed with Xanga.
Others--like Prince Philip--are obsessed with My Space which is a little more advanced. You can write a blog where other people write comments. There's also an email program--you don't actually get a new email address but other My Space users can write private messages to you which are stored in your "inbox." I think there's some sort of blogring idea here too. At My Space there's a higher chance of meeting strangers than at Xanga.
I don't know enough about Live Journal to write about it.
Hope this helps,
Chay
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I always thought blog was a Swedish word. 
I don't think anyone else here knows my name since I'm kind of a newbie.

You can call me Monica.chaychay102royal wrote:Very true, brownie. Or...? What should I call you? Call me Chay--I used to post here constantly and then I went to Los Angeles and...stopped. I stopped a while ago, so I don't think I know you.brownie wrote:I use my xanga a lot. Having one is no fun if you don't get comments.

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The kind of "blog" you hear about on the news all the time, though, isn't really the LiveJournal/diary kind, but rather, the websites that people (often including respected journalists and pundits) run in which they write daily or weekly columns on current events issues.
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I've heard Wordpress is a good one.
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and The Thinking Fan's Guide to Walt Disney World: Magic Kingdom (Epcot coming soon)
• Host of Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Pod, the longest-running Disney podcast
• Entertainment Writer & Moderator at DVDizzy.com
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and The Thinking Fan's Guide to Walt Disney World: Magic Kingdom (Epcot coming soon)
• Host of Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Pod, the longest-running Disney podcast
• Entertainment Writer & Moderator at DVDizzy.com
• Twitter - @aaronspod