Hello AARC friends,
I googled
Blog Definition to see if my idea of a Blog was anywhere close to what I thought the term meant. Like many things in continuing education, I had some of the concepts engrained and I picked up some pointers. So in the spirit of Blogging here is the definition from Wikipedia:
blog (a
portmanteau of the term "
web log")
[1] is a type of
website or part of a
website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning
to maintain or add content to a blog.
Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (Art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (Video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.
As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112,000,000 blogs.[2]
I have included a link to health care blogs so take a look and I think this will give all of us a different perspective of a Blog:
http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/