weblog

English

Alternative forms

• Weblog

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)

1. (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

• blog

Translations

blog — see blog

Further reading

• blog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bowleg

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English weblog. Equivalent to web +‎ log.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɛp.lɔx/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: web‧log

Noun

weblog n or m (plural weblogs, diminutive weblogje n)

1. a weblog

   Synonym: blog

Derived terms

• webloggen

Spanish

Noun

weblog m (plural weblogs)

1. weblog