Discovered in 1995 by 2 Australian lectures who wrote a paper on the digital sharing of files and documents via html.

http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/06/a-short-history-of-blogging/

Many blogs focus on specific issues i.e. Save the Wales however many can be online journals of thoughts and feelings

Blog, short form for the word “weblog” Verb – “a website that contains an online personal

journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks as provided by the writer” (Webster's Dictionary).