Pointy-Haired Boss: I'm starting my own blog!
Tina: Dear God, no!
Pointy-Haired Boss: Every day I will record my personal thoughts about our business. I need you to write the first one by noon. I can't wait to see what I'm thinking.
Tina: Dear God, no!
Pointy-Haired Boss: Every day I will record my personal thoughts about our business. I need you to write the first one by noon. I can't wait to see what I'm thinking.
— Dilbert
"Blog" is a silly shorthand for "web log": a journal published on the internet. Some blogs are simply a narcissistic record of blogger's life; others are a means for the blogger to write about subjects dear to their hearts. The second type tends to attract larger audiences. A popular variation is the Character Blog, which imitates the format of the first type, except that, instead of writing about himself, the author roleplays as a given character.
The main difference between a blog and a regular old website is that blog articles are arranged chronologically, usually with the most recent items first. Most blogs today are created with browser-based software, so that us non-tech-savvy individuals don't have to worry about code. A large number of blogs enable readers to post comments, which can lead to the formation of online communities around blogs with sufficient readership.
A more recent development is the video blog, or vlog, which is a blog done verbally before a webcam.
Some believe that blogs are arranged in a roughly spherical shape. This "Bloggy Woggy Ball"note is theorized to be an important part of Web 2.0: Electronic Blogaloo. See also Blog Tropes.
Notable blog-publishing sites:
- Blogger/Blog Spot (the Trope Namer) note
- LiveJournal
- Myspace
- Tumblr
- Wordpress
- Xanga
Blogs that have pages on TV Tropes include:
- 3ème Droite
- Adventures In Lurning
- Alice and Bob
- Always Having Juice
- Animated Critic
- Anonymous Yoshi
- Ask a Pony
- Aero-Replies
- Ask Brainy Twilight
- Ask Gaming Princess Luna
- Ask High School Cadance
- Ask Hoops and Dumbbell
- Ask Jappleack
- Ask King Sombra
- Ask Merriweather
- Ask Piny Twilight
- Ask Princess Molestia
- Ask the Mane Six
- Ask Twixie Genies
- Beochan: Paisean Agus Aiféala
- Children of Everfree
- Discorded Whooves
- Discorderly Conduct
- Horse Wife
- Miss Pie's Monsters
- MLP Is Real
- Moonstuck
- Rainbow Dash Reads Homestuck
- Slice of Life
- Twilight Unbound
- Vocational Death Cruise
- Ask a Velociraptor
- Ask Ernst Stavro Blofeld
- Ask Dark Hour Bakura
- Ask Lord Voldemort
- Ask Karkat Voice
- Ask Phd Pokémon
- Ask Pokémon Nerds
- Ask The Main Four
- An Astronomical Alphabetacy
- The Awesome Blog
- Bad Two Sentence Horror
- BioWare According to Mom
- The Black Legion of the Dark Lord Sketch Melkor
- Blogger Beware
- Blogging Twilight
- The Brave and the Bold: The Lost Issues
- Broke Patrick Bateman
- Bronyism
- A Bunch of Super Fighting Weirdos in a House
- Cake Wrecks
- Cartoon Brew
- Chaoticbeastsuggestion
- Cinnamon Bunzuh!
- Chicken Maker
- El Chigüire Bipolar
- The Chronicles Of Albion
- Citation Needed
- A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
- The Comics Curmudgeon
- Constable Frozen
- Could It Exist in Real Life?
- The Craig Slithers Show
- The Creative Notebook
- Das Sporking
- Deadcoders Reviews
- Dial B for Blog
- Epic Storytime
- Equestria Daily
- Everything2
- Facts from a Cardboard Box
- The Fear Mythos
- Call the Schoolmaster
- The Cockroach Metamorphosis
- Daniel-Verse
- Daniel-Verse Phase 2
- Hidden in the Trees
- In the Shuffling Madness
- Mephi
- The Puppets Game
- The Rapture Logs
- A Realm of Emptiness
- Shattered Psyche
- Spongey444
- To Light a Candle
- Topography Genera
- Viceking's Graab
- The World Through These Eyeholes
- Fire Blogger
- Fire Joe Morgan
- Flag Wars
- Forged in Stardust
- Gaijin Smash
- Gary: Landlord of the Flies
- Geek Rage
- Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog
- Gourmet Gaming
- Guardian Acorn
- The Half-World
- Heaven Sent Gaming: Heaven Sent Gaming on Tumblr
- Hermione's ABCs
- Hipster Feminist
- High Gloss Finish
- How to Hero
- How to Write Badly Well
- Hyperbole and a Half: A hybrid blog/webcomic.
- If the Four Seasons Continue to Change
- Iggy Butts
- Invisible Games
- The Island of Misfit Christmas Specials
- Itsjacepi
- Jenna Marbles
- Jim'll Paint It
- John K. Stuff
- Just Square And Pink
- Keep Beach City Weird
- Kivutar's Klassics
- Knights of Fandom
- KoopaTV
- Kyoki Manto
- Last Days Journal
- The Last War in Albion
- Law and the Multiverse
- Less Wrong
- Limyaael's Fantasy Rants
- Living in Oblivion
- Loreweaver Universe
- Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs
- Mack In Style
- Mark Does Stuff
- The Mark Side
- Men in Blazers
- The Miitopia Adventure
- Missfinefeather
- Musings Of A Warlock
- Mx Bones
- My Favorite Things: The Legacy
- Mythpunk
- Myths Retold
- Occupy Richie Rich
- Off the Page and into Life
- 0verhyped
- Palaeo Fail
- Poison Bonbons
- Pokémaniacal
- poupéegirl
- The PreDespair Kids
- Race for the Iron Throne
- Raptormaniacs
- Ready Set Think
- The Rebel Palate
- Renegade Rhetoric
- Rewritten Realms
- Roddy Plays
- Rooster Teeth: Official Tumblr page of Rooster Teeth Productions
- Achievement Hunter: achievementeeth
- Ashley Jenkins - jinxcellent
- Barbara Dunkelman - barbaradunkelman
- Blaine Gibson - bgibbles
- Brian Behm - flabbyironman
- Caleb Denecour - calebdenecour
- Chris Demarais - larkthechris
- Chris Martin - chrismartinphotography
- Gray Haddock - graymartigan
- Jon Risinger - likeyesterdaysjam
- Kdin Jenzen - simplycrazyhunter
- Kerry Shawcross - kerrys65
- Kyle Taylor - cloud416
- Lindsay Jones - lindsayjones
- Maggie Tominey - maggatomtom
- Miles Luna - milesluna
- Shane Newville - shanenewville
- Achievement Hunter: achievementeeth
- SERA 00
- Shades Of Grey
- A Shot of Tsundere in Your Ginger
- Skippy's List
- The Slender Man Mythos
- Anomalous Data
- Believe What You See
- Can You See the Words
- Care for a Cuppa?
- Crasshing Through Trees
- Dreams in Darkness
- The Eleventh Hour Trilogy
- Exilis Veritas
- H(a)unting
- Hiking Fiend
- A Hint of Serendipity
- Just Another Fool
- The London Librarian
- The Lovecraftian
- Make It Count
- Milo Answers
- My Name Is Zytherys
- Observe and Terminate
- Planned All Along
- A Really Bad Joke
- Road to the Heavens
- Rounded With A Sleep
- Seeking Truth
- Sevenshot Kid
- Testing123
- They Call Us Keepers
- To Look
- The Tutorial
- Vivere Disce
- What You Are in the Dark
- White Elephants
- Within His Threshold
- Sinverse
- The Skywalker Paradigm
- Slimy Swamp Ghost
- Songun Blog
- Spaceships and Psychics
- STFU Parents
- Super Crack Bros
- Survival Tips for S.H.I.E.L.D. Recruits
- The Taste of Static
- Tetrapod Zoology
- Texts from Bennett
- Texts from Dog
- Texts from Superheroes
- The INCspotlight
- Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG
- A Thread About How Much I Love Asriel
- Topless Robot
- The Trading Post
- The Tyrannosaur Chronicles
- The United Federation of Charles
- Up On The Shelf
- Unshaved Mouse
- VGJunk
- Villains Victorious
- VlogBrothers
- Wait But Why
- Weird SSB Fanfics
- What If?
- Why, MTG Cardsmith?
- World of the Munatar
- Worst Muse
- Yo, Is This Racist?
- The World Shall Be Mine
