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Recently there has been a large increase in the amount of personal webpages containing weblogs being posted on the internet because weblogging is becoming easier and easier. This provides a lot of information related to various topics, which come in a wide variety of themes. This has become a modern technology trend because of instant uncensored publishing. There are also different kinds of logging, which can be arranged into a few different groups. The two most popular are weblogs, which are more as reminders to their authors of interesting sites or articles, and blogs/online journals, which are both more personal and more topic focused.

Software makes posting personal webpages containing weblogs easy. Some people are of the opinion that Mosaic's "What's New" page in 1993 was the first software to make weblogging known to the general public. It was essentially a list of links that a few people thought were worth passing along to others. However, it wasn't until December 1997 that Jorn Barger coined the term "weblog" in his Robot Wisdom Weblog.

In January 1998, only a handful of weblogs and blogs existed, and many of the authors knew each other and linked to each other's sites. Rebecca Blood, author of "The Weblog Handbook", notes that one excellent site listed only 23 weblogs and blogs were in existence at the beginning of 1999. The media started noticing weblogs and blogs later in 1999 and drew attention to the phenomenon. It was the process of free weblog and blog creation programs in 1999 that made weblogging and blogging into a hugely popular pastime. Before this software was widely available, most weblogs and blogs were hand-coded by web developers and others who had taught themselves HTML. Creating HTML was very time consuming. The new programs made it easy for anyone to create their own weblogs, blogs or journals.

A program called "Blogger" was released in August 1999 and was an immediate hit, because it allowed instant online publication. This simple application allows users to create any kind of blog that they desired. In October 2000, "Blogger" users were creating 300 blogs a day, and the "Blogger" directory had over 5,500 blogs listed. In November 2000, the 10,000th "Blogger" was created. As of 2002, "Blogger" claimed over 750,000 users.

The rise of tools like "Blogger" also changed the content of weblogs. Weblogs, which began as link-driven sites offering different viewpoints on news and other subjects, began to collide with online journals. Blogger-style tools allowed links and commentary to quickly grow into longer essays and diaries on the Web. Online journals had existed before this, but new applications made journals easier to manage for those who didn't know any HTML.

Weblogs and blogs/online journals are often confused because they often can overlap in content and style. A person writing in an online journal or diary is logging their life while a person updating a weblog is a site featuring online content updates. Blogs are writing tools as much as anything else. The line between them and personal journals is pretty fuzzy, though blogs tend to be more focused on resources. Originally, blogs were used more as personal reminders to their authors of interesting sites or articles. If a visitor happened to benefit from the information, well, that was just a benefit. Weblogs drop links into text makes it choppy and less personal while blogs are very personal. Good blogs not only share useful information, but also give you a taste of the author's personality while weblogs generally only share information.

A weblog is a web site of non-personal, non-commercial origin that uses a dated log format that is updated on a daily or very frequent basis with new information about a particular subject or range of subjects. Weblogs were the first type of online logging. The information can be written by the site owner, copied from other web sites or contributed by others. A weblog often has the quality of being a kind of "log of our times" from a particular point-of-view of looking back at time. Generally, weblogs are devoted to one or several subjects or themes, usually of topical interest. A weblog may consist of the recorded ideas of an individual. Since there are a number of variations on this idea and new variations can easily be invented, the meaning of this term is sure to gather additional meanings with time.

A blog is basically an online journal. The information content and purposes of blogs will vary dramatically. In a blog you can focus on a single topic, writing your thoughts on a daily basis, or write the daily occurrences of your life. Some people use blogs as a way of discussing their thoughts on many different topics from a personal point-of-view, while others focus on a wider variation of their personal ideas. A journal style log has a more free-form interface that's combined with the ease of having people shift from the weblog to journal style blog. Newcomers appear to be the most drawn to blogging rather than filter style of weblogging.

A blog is really a web page made up of usually short but frequently updated postings arranged in reverse chronologically, similar to a "what's new" page or a journal which means the newest posting will be at the top of the page while the older ones are at the bottom. Some people also use blogs as a way of discussing their thoughts on many different subjects. You will also find such diverse information such as: links and commentary about other web sites; news about a company, a person or an idea; links to other blogs; project updates; forms; quotes; photos; poetry; mini-essays; song lyrics; even fiction is also standard for these sites.

As a "format and content" approach for a web site, the idea of Blogs seem popular because the viewer knows that something changes every day which in turn initiates regular visitation where there is a personal point-of-view. Updating with personal information, or activities, and thoughts can be a good way to relieve stress. On some sites there is the opportunity to contact or respond with the author and its participants through various methods including guestbooks, messageboards, forums and chat rooms. Blog postings are often considered the Web's equivalent of instant messaging service.

A weblog provides many advantages to its readers. It reveals only glimpses of the unimagined web to those who have no time to surf. An intelligent human being filters through the mass of information posted everyday, and picks out the interesting, the important, the overlooked, the comical, and the unexpected.

A user can instantly transfer their words and thoughts up onto their own web log site through one of the many pieces of blogging software available. This is the part where the author, usually known as weblogger or blogger, writes and stores a journal/blog of his or her own interests and activities. They almost always list all the other web pages that he or she finds particularly interesting so that the rest of the world can easily visit and see them too. This creates the feeling of an internet community, especially with the addition of web rings and other features, making it easy to find people with similar interests.

Both the journal/blog style and the weblog style still exist today, and are growing rapidly. The vast mixture of links, commentary, designs, and personal writing is unique to each site giving each weblog or blog its distinctive voice and personality. Some feel there needs to be another term to describe the weblog so it would be distinguished more easily from the blog. Regardless of whether a person uses a journal/blog style or a weblog style webpage the popularity of both continues to grow.