What is a blog?

In today's session we are going to look first at what a blog is and what elements you normally would find on one.

Look at the following example blogs, and see if you can see what they have in common...

• The Guardian's technology blog
• The TechLearning blog
• This blog...
• Teaching Young Learners of English
• An example of a splog (spam+blog=splog)
• Boing Boing (one of the most successful blogs ever)