Blogs, also known as weblogs, are websites consisting of individual files that are updated regularly and are organized in chronologically, the most recent appearing first. The author has the ability to speak, and beneath each article, readers can write comments. One feature that distinguishes blogs from news sites is that publications often include links to other sites as reference or for further information added.
The blog phenomenon began to be used when David Winer posted his first entry into the site Scripting News on April 1, 1997. From this date, the blog has grown enormously and had a great cultural, economic, social, political and media. So much so that today there are over 62 million. Created 175,000 new daily personal sites worldwide.
The spread of the blog was a little slow at first. Two years after its creation, there were only about 20 and were used by journalists and programmers. But everything changed after 1999, because in that year appeared the first free tools for production and maintenance of weblogs: in March, "Live Journal" in July, "Pitas" and "Blogger" (later becomes part of Google), in August. Since then, the weblog becomes popular.
According to the website of newspaper El Mundo of Spain, America Online bought the company commercial weblogs network Weblogs Inc. in October 2005 in exchange for 25 million dollars. This opened a new stage in the blogosphere because, currently, the major portion of the online editions of the various means of communication among its contents incorporated weblogs.
David Winer never have imagined that the blog would achieve such a development. Today is the only means of communication skills to express personal opinions and at the same time, communicate with other communities and cultures totally different. The keys to its success: it's free, fun and very easy to use.
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