blog
[blawg, blog]
- a website containing a writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other websites.
- a single entry or post on such a website: She regularly contributes a blog to the magazine's website.
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- to maintain or add new entries to a blog.
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- to express or write about on a blog: She’s been blogging her illness for almost a year.
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Origin of blog
First recorded in 1995–2000; shortening of weblog
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That lapse was partly mitigated by the rise of blogging, which encouraged user-generated content.
The Gossip Girl actress has followed Gwyneth Paltrow to the blogging ‘n’ selling online rodeo.
Since then, blogging has become much less personal and a lot more marketable.
She started years after blogging became established, but blew up in no time with massive success—and marriage.
Blogging is a lifestyle agenda that can pay the bills, it becomes a serious business of frivolous things.
blog
- informal an online journalFull name: weblog
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Word Origin and History for blogging
blog
n.
1998, short for weblog (which is attested from 1994, though not in the sense "online journal"), from (World Wide) Web + log. Joe Bloggs (c.1969) was British slang for "any hypothetical person" (cf. U.S. equivalent Joe Blow); earlier blog meant "a servant boy" in one of the college houses (c.1860, see Partridge, who describes this use as a "perversion of bloke"), and, as a verb, "to defeat" in schoolboy slang. The Blogger online publishing service was launched in 1999.
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