8.1 What Is a Blog?

A blog is the hip, short term for "web log." A blog is basically a way for you to publish information on the Web. Your blog can be anything: a diary or journal, your views on current events, recent activities of your cat, whatever.

Most blogs are also interactive, which means that people who read your blog can post responses.

Blogging goes way back, and can be traced down to Frontier, but has really become popular in the last two or three years . If you search on Google for "blog" and any other keyword (e.g., blog + Macintosh), you will find quite a few Mac-centric blogs to read.