Dear diary, must write that article on blogging for Junior Education today…

Whose job is it to make up all these bizarre new ICT words – wikis, podcasting and blogs? I’d like that job! Take the last of those, blogs. It’s actually short for weblog - a log or diary that you keep on the world wide web. With an estimated 70,000 new blogs (or online diaries) created worldwide - everyday - it’s clearly an important phenomenon.

Whereas a diary is usually an intensely personal affair for your eyes only (what I wouldn’t have given to have read my sister’s diary all those years ago…) a blog is a bit different. A blog takes the personal and conversational nature of diaries and give this a public dimension, via the web – and  allows you to do this easily, quickly and without the need to be, well, geeky…  Think of it as a personal web page made up of frequently updated information. You can give voice to your opinions on any subject. If you create a blog you’ll become a ‘blogger’ engaged in the process known as ‘blogging’.

‘Text from article in the July 2007 issue of Junior Education magazine’

Tim Rylands, Andy Hutt, Clive McGonigal