Blog is short for web logs. They are websites that people or groups of people create conversations that go on and on. When an individual post something, anyone that has acess to this blog can make a comment on that post. This is where Web 2.0 comes in. Web 2.0 has allowed us to have these tools like making comments, video sharing, RSS, and of course blogs.
Blogs can be used for many different things. They can be used for individuals communicating between each other, they can be used for private business purposes used to send information between each other, and they can also be used in the media to spread news to people.
Blogs can have in them video’s, pictures, links, and many other things like show below.

Nice post about blogs, Alex, and I like the picture. Try to find a specific blog, even link to it, if it still exists, that addresses a specific issue, event, or topic. Try doing a search for blogs on technorati.