Why do they call "blog" blog?

Question

I was wondering (your anwser will be put on my blog)

Answer 1

Short for Web Log

Answer 2

web log

Answer 3

they just drop the we  from weblog ,   its just a shortening of the two words that sounds ok.

a log is like a journal or diary.   like captains log  from star trek.

when you log something you are recording what has happened.

Answer 4

In 1998 there were just a handful of sites of the type that are now identified as weblogs (so named by Jorn Barger in December 1997). Jesse James Garrett, editor of Infosift, began compiling a list of “other sites like his” as he found them in his travels around the web.

In November of that year, he sent that list to Cameron Barrett. Cameron published the list on Camworld, and others maintaining similar sites began sending their URLs to him for inclusion on the list.

Jesse’s ‘page of only weblogs’ lists the 23 known to be in existence at the beginning of 1999.

Suddenly a community sprang up. It was easy to read all of the weblogs on Cameron’s list, and most interested people did.

Peter Merholz announced in early 1999 that he was going to pronounce it ‘wee-blog’ and inevitably this was shortened to ‘blog’ with the weblog editor referred to as a ‘blogger.’

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if you want to read more on the subject..

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