What does that word mean, anyway?
The term “blogging” started out as a slang term for “Web Logging”, the practice of keeping a public log of comments about interesting websites. It started back in the early days of the Web, before search engines were widely available. The first web logs were just web pages created by hand, like all other pages back in that era; but as the web took off in the late 1990’s, software tools appeared to let non-technical people create and maintain web logs of their own. Around the turn of the millennium, references to web logs started showing up in other media, and the term “blogging”, which began as slang, became the standard word. Someone who maintains a blog is called a “blogger” and the collection of all blogs is commonly known as “the blogosphere”.
