A Web log is not your brother's home page. Gone are the days when a personal home page was nothing more than pictures of the family cat, a resume and a list of links that hadn't been updated since 1997. Web logs are the second generation of the personal home pages posted by ordinary people who surf the Web. Unlike the first wave of home pages, Web logs are filled with personal commentary and observations, updated on a regular basis.
Topics range from the sublime to the ridiculous.
It's a fairly new phenomenon, but more logs are popping up daily. Think of all the times you've stumbled across a great Web site or read an interesting article online and sent it off to a crop of like-minded friends. Web logs are a running file of the sites and stories of particular interest to its author on any given day. Keeping up with a Web log is like checking in with a friend to see what they've been reading. Web loggers don't like to be defined, and what exactly they put in a Web log varies.