What is a Blog?

At the risk of showing my age and my complete lack of technological savvy, I readily admit I thought the word “BLOG”, was an acronym. I could not figure out what it was an acronym for, so I spent 30 minutes searching the internet trying to determine what the word meant.  I finally figured out that, at least according to the internet, the word “Blog” is short for web-log.  Now I do not know what web-log means and I am starting from scratch.

However, I do know that blogs are very popular.  The blog has created its own world and many new words recognized by the Merriam Webster dictionary, at least the one I found on the internet.  Blog, blogger, blogging, all are now recognized words of the English language.  To be politically correct, I wonder how you say blog in Spanish?  That would take an internet search that would unquestionably test my limited technological capabilities.

I still have not figured out how someone starts his or her own blog.  Do you have to go to a website creator to start your own blog?  If I can get good at “blogging”, can I sell advertising on my blog?  How accurate must I be when I write something on my blog?  Obviously, if my blog makes it to the internet, everyone will assume what I say is true, otherwise it would not be on the internet.

Jerry Seinfeld and Larry Davis created a sitcom about nothing that made billions.  If I blog about nothing, I wonder if I can make millions?

I am thinking I best keep my day job, at least for now.