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What is a Blog?

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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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A blog is basically an online diary.

One popular blogging service is LiveJournal.com.
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Post by Fee-Hee-Hee-Eny »

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! :D
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Fee-Hee-Hee-Eny wrote:I use xanga.com, and personally, I don't get what the big deal about it is, but I still love it! :D
Haha, that's how I feel about myspace!
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I'm on Myspace, but more than a way to "blog", I use it as a way of keeping intouch with friends, and tracking down people that I knew...
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Post by chaychay102royal »

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.

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Post by brownie »

Livejournal and xanga are blogs, things like friendsters and myspace are more about communicating with friends, but they have blogs, too.

I use my xanga a lot. Having one is no fun if you don't get comments.
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brownie wrote: I use my xanga a lot. Having one is no fun if you don't get comments.
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.
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Blog is the abbreviation for Web Log, in case anyone wanted to know.
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ohhh....so that mean blog!

I always thought it was just a weird word :P

Mine is on msn, and I use it for poems and to have a DVD list somewhere
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I always thought blog was a Swedish word. :lol:
chaychay102royal wrote:
brownie wrote:I use my xanga a lot. Having one is no fun if you don't get comments.
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.
You can call me Monica. :) I don't think anyone else here knows my name since I'm kind of a newbie.
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*thinks to self* And she thinks she's a newbie :roll:
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I give another meaning for blog:

"is a place where you can write all your feelings and thinkins in the most variety subjects, that can be a simply "diary" or random subjects that come to your mind"
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And add some photos or images, don´t forget the images :D
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Post by AwallaceUNC »

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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What is the easiest to use / least complicated blog around, anyone have any suggestions? If I were to look into blogging myself, that is...
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i use live journal, it is quite good for my needs.
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Well my needs are extra simple: some place that's easy to use and login to, doesn't require any downloading or anything like that, and doesn't take too much time to setup. A place that doesn't have too many precautions or a really long and difficult registry.
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I've heard Wordpress is a good one.

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I just registered at livejournal.com. Anyone here use that service?
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