weblog
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Web + log, coined by Jorn Barger in 1997.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɛb.lɒɡ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɛb.lɔɡ/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈwɛb.lɑɡ/
Noun
weblog (plural weblogs)
- (Internet, dated) A website in the form of an ongoing journal.
- Synonym: blog
- 2002 July 25, J. D. Biersdorfer, “Your World, Online: Setting Up a Weblog”, in New York Times:
- A Weblog is updated as often as the writer decides and can include photographs and links to other sites around the Web. There are different ways to create a Weblog, and you do not need your own file server.
- 2011, Xin Xin, “Web 2.0, citizen journalism and social justice in China”, in Graham Meikle, Guy Redden, editors, News Online: Transformations and Continuities, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 184:
- The case of the Loufan landslide indicates how a mainstream journalist-blogger used his weblog to expose the cover-up of an accident in north-west China.
Derived terms
Translations
blog — see blog
Further reading
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English weblog. Equivalent to web + log.
Pronunciation
Noun
weblog n or m (plural weblogs, diminutive weblogje n)
Derived terms
Spanish
Noun
weblog m (plural weblogs)