A blog is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.

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. Blog is an Web 2.0 concept with the ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.

Type of Blog:

√ Personal blogs
√ Corporate blogs
√ Question blogs
√ Political blogs
√ Travel blogs
√ Fashion blogs
√ Education blogs
√ By media type: Videos (vlog), links (linklog), photos (photoblog), portfolio of sketches (sketchblog), mixed media (tumblelogs).
√ moblog (a blog written by a mobile device).

SAMPLE of Blog

• I Love Typography - http://ilovetypography.com
• The Moment - http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com
• Web Designer Wall - http://www.webdesignerwall.com
• Eye-Fi - http://www.eye.fi
• Brazilian Culture Ministry - http://www.cultura.gov.br/site
• Photoshop Creativo - http://psdcreativo.com
• College Crunch - http://www.collegecrunch.org
• Wine Library TV: daily wine video blog - http://tv.winelibrary.com
• Fresh Apps - http://www.freshapps.com

Why Wordpress?
• Wordpress is largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions people every day.
• Because it is Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it.
• More than 3500 plugins and 500 themes.
• Search engine friendly.

• Easy to use. No software required.

*Special thanks to www.wordpress.org for all the information about Wordpress.
*Special thanks to www.wikipedia.org for all the information about Blog.