10 Things I Didn't Know About Blogging...

...that may or may not be common knowledge to everyone else:

1. Blogs didn't start off as online diaries. They were lists of favourite websites or links to new sites as they were launched online in the early days of the internet.

2. The noun and verb 'blog' was coined by Peter Merholz who turned the word weblog into 'we blog'.

3. You can have photoblogs and artblogs made up of visual material.

4. Video blogs are called vlogs.

5. Dreamlogs or dreamblogs, online journals describing dreams and nightmares are a genre in itself.

6. The blogosphere is the collective name for all blogs on the internet - the blogging universe.

7. Apparently 'slog' is the term for a site weblog, they call it a slice of a website- that is, a blog that is integrated within a business website.

8. There is a phenomenon called 'splogging' - spam blogs that steal material from other blogs and other naughty things.

9. Technorati, the internet search engine for blogs, indexes about 75 million blogs.

10. There are Blog Carnivals dedicated to particular themes: collections of high quality blog posts on a specific topic.