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Article: The New World of Blogs

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March 1, 2004
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Imagine a costless or very cheap printing press in the hands of each and every writer. Imagine a world where opinion and commentary bypass the elites and are unregulated by government. Well, we have entered this new world in the last few years. These virtual-reality printing presses, called "blogs," are reshaping the world of publishing.

The word "blog" is a neologism, short for "weblog." A weblog, quite simply, is a website that is updated on a regular basis, often every day. Think of a diary, or an op-ed page, but in Cyberspace, and you come close to imagining what blogs are like. The end of this article offers some blog sites for you to visit.

It is disputed who wrote the first blog, but ...

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