What Is A Blog?

Let's start by looking at a few definitions from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org

I think these are very well explained and instead of re-defining them, we'll use theirs.

Blog or Weblog

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts.

As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.

I highly recommend that you go read the rest, for a more in-depth discussion, including the history or how blogs have evolved, read the rest at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog    It's very interesting to understand how it has progressed.

Portmanteau

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

/p?rt'mænto?/), plural portmanteaux, is a word or morpheme that fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning. A folk usage of portmanteau refers to a word formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words (e.g., spork from spoon and fork, animatronics from animated and electronics, guesstimate from guess and estimate, wikipedia from wiki and encyclopedia, or ginormous from gigantic and enormous). Typically, portmanteaux are nonce words or neologisms. Portmanteaux are commonly used in science fiction for a wide variety of technical words, such as cyborg from cybernetic and organism.

Uses For Blogs

Anything you can thing of really.  Personal, business, PR, a communication tool for organizations, groups, causes, corporations internally or external, etc. 

The real question is, what do YOU want to use it for?  We can and will help you figure that out.

What To Do First?