text: hi! what is blog?   good questions!  a blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. the term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging". individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts" or "entries". a person who posts these entries is called a "blogger". a blog comprises text, hypertext, images, and links (to other web pages and to video, audio and other files). blogs use a conversational style of documentation. often blogs focus on a particular "area of interest", such as washington, d.c.'s political goings-on. some blogs discuss personal experiences.  blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software on regular web hosting services.