The original name for a blog was a weblog.
A blog is basically a story written by a person with opinions on something.
People who write and maintain blogs are known as bloggers.
The subject of the story can be on anything at all, for example, it can be about a person's hobby or interest.
A person can make daily posts to the blog, or, alternatively, the posts can be once a week.
Blogs are also used by businesses.
Blogs are a good way for a business of keeping visitors to their site up to date with the contents of their site.
If the business has a new product being released it can use the blog on its site to inform people of the new product.
Another way that blogs can be used is for a group of people interested in the same topic to post entries on that topic to the blog.
There are a number of sites where you are now able to write and host your blogs for free, for example, Blogger.
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It is quite straightforward to sign up for a blog.
Once you are signed up you can then choose a template to customise how your blog will look.
After that it is up to you to enter information for your blog whenever you feel that it is relevant to do so.
Everything can be entered directly through your internet browser.
Blogs have a big advantage with the speed at which they can be updated which is almost instant once the message has been posted, so, you have no excuse to keep your fellow bloggers or customers up to date.
Enjoy your blogging.