What- Blogging

What is a blog and how did this form a writing start. 

From what I understand it started in the late 1990's.  January 1994 Justin Hall created first blog ever. The name blog came from a term "weblog" coined by Jorn Barger. Peter Merholz joking broke the word "weblog" into blog. It seemed to stick after that. He used it as a noun and a verb.

It started as a way for an individual to talk about a single subject to a small group of people and then get comments back and start a conversation. Now it is a format that individuals use and large groups of people.

Companies use it to discuss topics, or products. Multi-media is used freely on the sites from video, photos, music and podcasts. Some blogs even have live streaming capabilities. I am sure some thing new will be used on blogs soon.

See this article for the history of Blogs.
 New York Magazine article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog