For other uses, see Blog (disambiguation). "Blogger" redirects here. For the blog publishing system owned by Google, see Blogger (service). A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as political blogs, travel blogs, fashion blogs, project blogs, education blogs, niche blogs, classical music blogs, legal blogs (often referred to as a Bloghood. Popularity Recently, researchers have analyzed the dynamics of how blogs become popular. There are essentially two measures of this: popularity through citations, as well as popularity through affiliation (i.e. blogroll). The basic conclusion from studies of the structure of blogs is that while it takes time for a blog to become popular through blogrolls, permalinks can boost popularity more quickly, and are perhaps more indicative of popularity and authority than blogrolls, since they denote that people are actually reading the blog's content and deem it valuable or noteworthy in specific cases.[19] Recently, through the mass popularity of sponsored post ventures such as PayPerPost many personal blogs have started writing sponsored posts for advertisers wanting to boost buzz about new products and services. It has revolutionised the blogosphere almost in the same way that Google AdSense did.[20] The blogdex project was launched by researchers in the MIT Media Lab to crawl the Web and gather data from thousands of blogs in order to better control parties against their interest. [29]. This is the wiki for Blogging for Beginners series by ProBlogger Welcome to Blogging for Beginners Teacher Daniel Williford Philocrites: Commentary on religion, liberalism, and culture // Unitarian Universalist General Assembly handout: Blogging for beginners by Philocrites search entries in NDLA Blogging for Beginners