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Blog

A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a website whose basic unit is a "post" or "entry", with posts typically presented in reverse chronological order. Blogging may be carried out by individuals, commercial enterprises, or organizations, and blog content varies widely.

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History

Types

Community and cataloging

Early popularity

Software

Blurring with the mass media

Consumer-generated advertising

Legal and social consequences

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Blog

Nodes268
Edges267
Triples293
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007463
Components1

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Blog

Top relations

related to Defamation or liability · 39
Blog → Aaron Wall, According, Ahirudin Attan, American, Aun, Berhad, Brenden John, Cahill, Cahills, Communications Decency Act, Councilman Cahill's, Delaware Supreme Court, EC, EU Directive, Following, Google, Hishamuddin, In, In Doe, In January
related to Blurring with the mass media · 38
Blog → Alex Steffen, Ana Marie Cox, Atrios, August, CyberJournalist, Daily Kos, Duncan Black, Emergency Preparedness, Ezra Klein, FiveThirtyEight, Glenn Reynolds, Hugh Hewitt, Hurricane Bonnie, In, Instapundit, J-blog, Jonathan Dube, Lisa Tolliver, Many, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga
related to Mainstream popularity · 30
Blog → Ben Trott, Blogging, By, Even, Foreign Affairs, Fortune, Hamas, In January, Israel, Israeli Ministry, IsraelPolitik, Jason Calacanis, Jason Goldman, Jonathan Schwartz, Mena Trott, MP, Parliament, Peter Rojas, Robert Scoble, Saranga
has impact · 26
Blog → An, Bloggers, Blogging, CBS, Consequently, Dan Rather, Josh Marshall's Talking Points, Little Green Footballs, Lott, Lott's, Memo, Minutes, President Bush's, Rathergate, Senate Majority Leader Trent, Senator Lott, Senator Strom Thurmond, Senator Thurmond, Similarly, Television
related to Political dangers · 24
Blog → Abdel Monem Mahmoud, After, Alexandria, April, As, Blogging, Blogs, Chinese, Egypt, Egyptian, Hosni Mubarak, In, In Singapore, Internet, Islam, Islamic, It, Kareem Amer, Maikel Nabil Sanad, Monem
related to Early popularity · 18
Blog → Alexa Internet, Alexa Toolbar, As, Before, Blogs, Boing Boing, Chinese, In August, Information, It, MIT Media Lab, Researchers, Technorati, The, There, Web, Xinhua, Xu Jinglei
related to Technology · 17
Blog → At, Blogs, Early, For, FTP, HTML, In, Inc, Online Diary, Posts, The, Then, This, To, Ty, Ultimately, Web
related to Rise in popularity · 14
Blog → After, Andrew Smales, Blogger, Brad Fitzpatrick, Bruce Ableson, DiaryLand, July, LiveJournal, March, October, Open Diary, Pitas, September, Web
related to Origins · 13
Blog → BBS, Before, BIX, Byte Information Exchange, CompuServe, Encyclopedia Britannica, GEnie, In, Internet, Threads, Tim Berners-Lee, Usenet, World Wide Web
related to Personal safety · 11
Blog → Blogger's Code, Conduct, Creating Passionate Users, Hacker1984, In, Internet, Kathy Sierra, One, San Diego, Sierra, While

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Important terminology

blogs blogging bloggers media blogger web online content also websites personal many first comments software new diary news used political

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Blogis aongoing online diary or commentary written by an individual0.90text
GEnieinstance ofcommercial online services0.80text
Byte Information Exchangeinstance ofcommercial online services0.80text
Rustem Adagamovinstance ofBloggers0.80text
Alexei Navalny have many followersinstance ofBloggers0.80text
and the latter's nickname for the ruling United Russia party as theinstance ofBloggers0.80text
Mediuminstance ofMany people use managed platforms0.80text
previewing postsinstance ofThese platforms have built-in support for many features0.80text
paywallsinstance ofThese platforms have built-in support for many features0.80text
and newslettersinstance ofThese platforms have built-in support for many features0.80text
Torinstance ofBlogs can be much harder to control than broadcast or print media because a person can create a blog whose authorship is hard to trace by using anonymity technology0.80text
Bloghas impactAn0.60section

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