I was at a networking event the other night and someone asked me what a blog was. At first I was kind of taken back by this then I realized that it was a really good question and I am sure many people wonder the same exact thing. So I did a little research to see how it has been defined before …

I started my research by first Googling “What is a blog”. Of course I figured that Google would answer my question or at least lead me down the right path but with 65.9 million results there was a bit to sort through.

As usual my research buddy Wikipedia was at the top of the results. Here is the definition that they provide:

“A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order.”

Definition taken from Wikipedia.com