Weblog

For the AboutUs Weblog, please see blog.AboutUs.org.

A Weblog (also known as a blog) is an interactive website providing for commentary, news, personal diary and other information presented in a chronological (or reverse chronological) order. A common way for interaction between the writer (blogger) and the readers is the ability of blogs to provide reader comments on weblog posts. They often include text, images and links to other web pages, related media or other weblogs. Weblogging software is often characterized by the ability for users to easily create great looking weblogs without needing to learn complex markup code.

People who write blogs are often known as "Bloggers" (which is a differentiation from the blogging service/site Blogger.com.

Forums and software for blogging

• Blogger.com, a service owned by Google that allows users to easily create their own weblogs on the Blogger website.
• WordPress.com is another website hosting personal blogs, using the freely available WordPress software which can be downloaded from WordPress.org (note that the ".com" is for hosting of blogs, the ".org" is for downloading the software to host your own blog).
• MoveableType.org is another popular software package for weblogging.
• Typepad.com offers a blogging service with a variety of plans for users.
• Many domain hosters now offer easy to install weblogs as part of their hosting package; additionally other social networking sites like MySpace.com offer some blog-like functions for their members.

Other resources

• WordPress.org's Intro to Blogging
• Wikipedia's Blog Article
• Online Journalism Review has a Blog software comparison chart from May 2006.

The AboutUs Weblog

On AboutUs, we have our own wiki weblog:

• You can view the current weblog post on our home page, at www.aboutusweblog.org, and on the AboutUsWeblog.org (which also contains information about the AboutUs Weblog project, links to past posts and more.
• A chronological list of previous AboutUs Weblog can be found at Weblog/2007.