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weblog

noun/ˈwɛb.lɒɡ/

What It Means

A website in the form of an ongoing journal.

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Weblog in Context

“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.”

— 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, page...

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Compound of Web + log. Coined by American blogger Jorn Barger in 1997.

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