What’s what?

On a meeting I regularly ran in to people who have heard of blogging. But don’t know exactly what it is. Let me tell you, you already visited at least one (mine), and my guess is several blogs. A blog is nothing more and nothing less than a particular form of a site.

Facts

• A blog is in chronological order. The most recent text is the above one.
• You can respond to the texts.
• Most of the times there is a RSS feed that you can subscribe to (I’ll explain RSS in a later stage)
• The author is not a journalist. It is a person, who likes to share his opinion on the subject.
• A blog can be about litteraly anything that the author has a personal interest in.

Definitions

Above you’ve read the characteristics of a blog. The separate texts are called posts of postings. But a lot of time you’ll see that the posting itself is also called a blog. The author of the postings is a blogger.

That’s basically all there is to it.