A
blog (a truncation of the expression
weblog) is a discussion or informational site published on the
World Wide Web consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first). Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject. More recently, "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited. MABs from
newspapers, other media outlets,
universities,
think tanks,
advocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise of
Twitter and other "
microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into societal newstreams.
Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning
to maintain or add content to a blog.