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April 28, 2003 (Computerworld) -- Diaries, journals, columns, essays, musings, daybooks, chronicles, logs and memoirs -- all are ways in which people have kept records of their thoughts and feelings as well as events taking place around them.
In our computer-literate, information-based society, the creation of an electronic equivalent of these personal journals was inevitable. It's called the weblog, often abbreviated to blog, and it has expanded the possibilities for comment, expressing opinion and public discourse.
Traditional diaries come with lockable straps designed to keep others from reading one's private thoughts. In today's world, however, attitudes toward such privacy seem, on the whole, quite different than they used to be. Weblogging represents a distinct movement to share thoughts publicly.
Early weblogger and developer Dave Winer (www.scripting.com) says weblogs have the following characteristics, which he sums up in the phrase "personal Web-based publishing communities":
• Personal. Blogs are created by a single person, expressing a distinct personality.
• Web-based. They're frequently updated, inexpensive to maintain and accessible via a Web browser.
• Published. Automated publishing tools help the author present his words in an attractive format, and maybe even syndicate them.
• Communities. Blogs link to other blogs and sites, acknowledging that they're part of a larger world.
One other category of weblog is a community blog, which is generally updated frequently by many people and often has an imposing presence. The best-known and perhaps earliest example of this type is slashdot.org, a good site for news and sometimes offbeat commentary on Linux, open source, gadgets, privacy and other computer-related topics.
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