'Weblog' is both a noun and a verb (the term was created by Jorn Barger in 1997) and is a new technology which is currently sweeping the world. Commonly shortened to 'Blogging' (The word 'blog' originating from Peter Merholz who separated the word 'weblog' on his own blog into "we blog" in 1999), this new phenomenon uses internet web sites such as www.blogger.com to allow users to type whatever they want and save it on their own 'Blog', also allowing others to read what they have written and often leave comments.
People all over the world regularly post entries on their own blogs and entries can range from political views to homework assignments to personal diaries. Anything can be blogged and nothing is regulated so there are many different types of blogs out there and all sorts of different views.
Some blogs have become very popular, with more people reading the updates all the time. An example is a blog written by the chinese actress Xu Jinglei. The page has had over 50 million views and has been rated the most popular by Technorati (a site developed to track blogs)
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