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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?

A blog is basically an online diary.

One popular blogging service is LiveJournal.com.

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!

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!

Haha, that's how I feel about myspace!

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...

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

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.

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.

Blog is the abbreviation for Web Log, in case anyone wanted to know.

ohhh....so that mean blog!

I always thought it was just a weird word

Mine is on msn, and I use it for poems and to have a DVD list somewhere

I always thought blog was a Swedish word.

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.

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"

And add some photos or images, don´t forget the images

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.

-Aaron

What is the easiest to use / least complicated blog around, anyone have any suggestions? If I were to look into blogging myself, that is...

i use live journal, it is quite good for my needs.

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.

I've heard Wordpress is a good one.

-Aaron

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