- Blogging began in the mid '90s, and the term "Weblog" was coined in 1997 by John Barger. The term "blog" was coined in 1999 by Peter Merholz.
- With the advent of free blogging software, like Blogger and Wordpress, blogs became available to anyone with an Internet connection, providing a quick, easy way for people to have a Web platform to express their views.
- Blogs are formats for information. More and more, blogs are being used by professional journalists and writers to break and report news.
- Blogs are often organized by topic. Popular topics include politics, technology, media, sports and business.
- Blogs are ranked in popularity based on the number of incoming links by the Web site Technorati. Techonrati also allows for the searching of blogs by subject.
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