Blogs

 consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in 

 so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the 

. The first blogger of the internet, named 

 and still active till the date. Until 2009, blogs were usually the work of a single individual,[

] occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic. In the 2010s, "multi-author blogs" (MABs) emerged, featuring the writing of multiple authors and sometimes professionally 

, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog 

" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media. 

The emergence and growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing tools that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users who did not have much experience with 

. Previously, knowledge of such technologies as HTML and 

 had been required to publish content on the Web, and early Web users therefore tended to be 

 and computer enthusiasts. In the 2010s, the majority are interactive 

 websites, allowing visitors to leave online comments, and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.

 In that sense, blogging can be seen as a form of 

. Indeed, bloggers not only produce content to post on their blogs but also often build social relations with their readers and other bloggers.

 However, there are high-readership blogs which do not allow comments.

Many blogs provide commentary on a particular subject or topic, ranging from 

 of a particular individual or company. A typical blog combines text, 

 to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave publicly viewable comments, and interact with other commenters, is an important contribution to the popularity of many blogs. However, blog owners or authors often 

 or other offensive content. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (

). In education, blogs can be used as instructional resources;  these are referred to as 

 is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.

'Blog' and 'blogging' are now loosely used for content creation and sharing on 

, especially when the content is long-form and one creates and shares content on regular basis. So, one could be maintaining a blog on 

Till 2022, there are over 600 million public blogs out of 1.9 Billion+ websites.

 On February 20, 2014, there were around 172 million 

. According to critics and other bloggers in 2010 and 2014, 

 was the most popular blogging service in use. However, Blogger does not offer public statistics.

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