2. By: Ashley Trapp

3. What’s a WEBLOG?? A Weblog is a journal which is available on the Web. Weblogs are usually updated daily. Requires little to no technical computer background.

4. Why Have one?  Meet new people.  Free publication.  Access anywhere, anytime.  Share your thoughts with the world.  Free to comment anyone.  Hassle and cost free!  Entertaining.  Ways to Keep in touch over seas.  Self educate on computer software.  Advertisement!

5. …Different Types… Blogs can solely be for new friends and interactions. Political Ramblings. Music, Book, Models, etc. advertisement. Companies employee blog communities. “up to the minute opinions on news” Professional journals and more!

6. Personalize it! Everything on your Weblog can be changed and edited depending on the advance of your computer skills. Text, Music, Background URL codes can easily be found on the web. (Ex. KEKAIBOY's for music)KEKAIBOY's You can make your Blog for personal use or open to pubic view. Freedom to choose what personal information you want available. People also tend to create their own style of writing such as, @l0h@.

7. One Step Further… Even though Google and Yahoo are the largest and most popular search engines they do not allow searches to blogs. This is why Weblog search engines were created. It makes it easier to pinpoint and locate certain people and their blogs without knowing their exact addresses.

8. Try These! Feedster.com Daypop.com Technorati.com

9. Where to Look… MySpace.com Xanga.com Blogger.com Blogforamerica.com

10. !!!EXAMPLES!!! My MySpace My Xanga Dana’s Page Cheri’s Page

11. SUMMERY In 2003 the idea of Weblog took off! Since than it has grown into this hot “arena” for news and information. Because of its wide variety of uses people have found it convenient and effective. In the mid afternoon an average of 5,671,289 people are on Myspace. This is only one Online Community, imagine all of them put together!! Bloggers have caught onto this epidemic and have became addicted! Who knows what Weblogging will bring because there is virtually no stopping it now.

12. References Blog Philies.27 November 2004..http://www.blogphiles.com/webring.shtml Gogolski, Adam.“Take blogging one step further with Weblog search sites.” The Internet Insider Nov. 2004 14-16. Myspace..http://www.myspace.com