weblog

Etymology

Web + log, coined by Jorn Barger in 1997.

noun

  1. (Internet, dated) A website in the form of an ongoing journal.
    A Weblog is updated as often as the writer decides and can include photographs and links to other sites around the Web. There are different ways to create a Weblog, and you do not need your own file server. July 25, 2002, J. D. Biersdorfer, “Your World, Online: Setting Up a Weblog”, in New York Times
    The case of the Loufan landslide indicates how a mainstream journalist-blogger used his weblog to expose the cover-up of an accident in north-west China. 2011, Xin Xin, “Web 2.0, citizen journalism and social justice in China”, in Graham Meikle, Guy Redden, editors, News Online: Transformations and Continuities, Palgrave Macmillan, →OCLC, page 184

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