The widespread definition of a blog today is;

A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

(From Wikipedia.)

I think it’s interesting that in the years between being an activity by a few people on the nascent World Wide Web and the mainstream role that blogs have in today’s digital landscape (depending on how you define a “blog”), the idea that a “weblog” is a log of the web seems to have been superseded by the idea of a log on the web.
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March 24th, 2008 | Web Content | No comments