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We're all familiar with the online term blog. Blogs have leveled the publishing playing field by letting anyone with Internet access and the inclination publish his or her thoughts online for all to see. Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan explains what a blog is and where the term comes from.

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Male: Get yourself a copy of the free G Doc Creator. It lets you create, print and view your Microsoft office talks to pdf or xpf. Download a copy right now at butterscotch.com/gdoc. That’s butterscotch.com/gdoc. Mike: Hi, this is Mike Callahan, Doctor File Finder and welcome to your butterscotch.com tutorial. And what is a blog? It’s a strange sounding word, isn’t it? Blog, it could be an insect, it could be a really rare fruit, it could be the latest disease. But instead what it is a combination of the word web and log. I would have called it a wog but that’s just me. So a blog is generally a site, majority of which are done by individuals or a people updates with information, what's going on, what's happening, what they're doing, what have they done. There are also company blogs. Butterscotch.com has a blog that you can read. WordPress is probably the best known for blogs. They are blogging software and blogging sites. We’re going to press that word and create your own blog. Google has a blog service. There are many free blogging services all over the internet and there are many, many blogs. Here’s mine. I don’t write in it very often but I do occasionally. So a blog is simply a website that is frequently updated or updated occasionally with information by that person, that company, that group, that people can read. And you’ve all seen the famous symbol for RSS with every simple syndication that lets you subscribe to a blog. So you automatically get any updates. So that’s a blog and that’s all there is to it.