What’s a Blog?

Well, you’re on a blog! This site is part of the WordPress.com blogger site. A blog is an online diary or journal that anyone can keep about any topic. There are blogs about hobbies and TV shows, politics and books, the Supreme Court of the United States and Jessica Simpson. Anything and everything. Some large blogs have thousands of people read their site every day, but most have just a handful. If you have a passion about a topic, blogs are a great way to plug into a community of people with the same interest who want to share their views and share information with like-minded folks. Most blogs have a column called a blog roll that lists links to other blogs that the blogger likes. This is one of the key differences between blogging and broadcast media. Bloggers hope and expect that visits will click and visit other sites. Broadcast media wants to keep you captive – an unrealistic goal in this connected age.

Here are some popular blogs (as reported by Technorati, a blog tracking site, really there are sites that track these things!):

Boing Boing

Daily Kos

Huffington Post