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blog The word blog is a blend of the words web and log because early blogs were called web-logs. The word blog is a noun which means a website or section of a website where journal style entries are displayed in reverse chronological order. Blog is also a verb meaning to make a blog entry. Blogs often focus on a specific topic (gadgets, cooking, politics, motherhood) or they can be an online diary. There are some blogs that have become commercial websites that provide news on a particular topic attracting millions of readers each month. Other blogs are user-submitted and often features of large social networking sites such as MySpace. Still another type of blog is a corporate blog or a blog written by someone who is a public figure in a large organization or company. And yet another type of blog that’s really grown in popularity over the last year or so, is blogs that are features of websites for traditional media. The first web log was started by Justin Hall in 1994. The idea was to post personal thoughts on a topic and then link to other sites with a similar interest. In that way, readers could browse between sites. Readers could also post comments about the blogs which is still an important part of blogs today. The search engine technorati searches and catalogues blogs only. As of January 2008 their index includes over 110 million blogs and the number of blogs in the Internet might actually be far greater than that because there is some controversy over whether or not technoranti has been able to index blogs that are part of a larger social networking site properly. It should be noted, however, that not all of them are currently active. Either way, the blogosphere is absolutely huge.