Short for web log, a blog is a web page that serves as a
publicly accessible personal journal. New content is published
by the blog’s author on a regular basis, often daily. Most blogs
are a mixture of what is happening in a person’s life and what
is happening on the Web, but there are as many unique types of
blogs as there are people. In recent years, blogs have played an
important role in the delivery of real time commentary on
important events, such as the presidential elections. Blogs
differ from traditional sites in that rather than being composed
of individual web pages connected by hyperlinks, they consist of
a template into which content is fed from a database. Each new
item submitted to the blog is known as a post, and may include
hyperlinks to other sites on the Web. A key feature of a blog is
that visitors to the blog can submit comments on any of the
posts using a simple form. Each post on a blog will also have a
link at the bottom that will allow the person visiting the blog
to view any comments