Paquet (2003) refers to a blog as a log of the web or weblog. Simply, a blog is a website made available through the Internet, using reverse chronological order to present dated entries. 

Bartlett-Bragg (2003) offers the following key terms:

• Blog: both the actual weblog site and the act of updating the website
• Blogger: a person who maintains a blog
• Blogging: the act of posting to one's blog
• Blog-o-sphere: the collective world of blogging

A blog can be thought of as an electronic bulletin board. It is a space capable of holding multi-model content (text, video, pictures, etc.) for public viewing over the web.

Paquet provides five distinct features that a blog exhibits:

• personal editorship
• a hyperlinked posting structure
• frequent updates
• free public access to the content via the Internet
• archived postings

For a handout on blog basics:
Introduction Sheet

For a video introduction:
Helpful Introduction Video