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The Internet has evolved as a platform for all kinds of publications, especially new but also for traditional media, and empowering users, Internet users, such as new protagonists.

It is within the framework of this revolution social that has been the so-called Network of networks that during the second half of the nineties of the century In the past, a new way of publishing arises, which will later be called weblog, reaching fame with its name shortened: Blog.

A blog is a digital publication available for reading through the Internet, in which the entries (also called posts by their denomination in English) are arranged in reverse chronological order

This means that when entering the web page in which the index of publications is displayed, the first ones that we see are the most recent, moving further away in time as we move further down and to other pages archived.

This arrangement is not done on a whim, but with a very clear purpose: to facilitate, at a glance, to see if there is something new published on the blog.

Added to this reverse ordering factor, a blog can be much more refined and complicated, as we will see next.

Blog creation tools

Although a blog post can be done manually by composing the pages in HTML flat, the most common is to use a blog creation tool, which on the one hand provides a database with the articles and elements inserted in these (such as images), and on the other the appearance of the application.

These tools are called CMS for Content Management System (Content Management System).

The appearance of the publications is usually customizable, with templates already made that can be modified to adapt them to the purposes we want. On the Internet there is a large market for templates adapted and adaptable to any type of content.

Without a doubt, the most popular tool today is WordPress, which has become a de facto standard for most of the blogging community.

WordPress is developed by a private company, which offers free and paid hosting services but, in addition, also offers the product (the content manager) as a free download, being able to mount it on our own server, which gives us independence with respect to this company and allows us a greater degree of customization.

On the web we can find a huge number of templates developed to work in this CMS, with which we can adapt it to meet any need.

Blogger is Google's tool. It's free, like a large number of Mountain View company's services, but we can only use it from their servers and linked to our Google account, without the possibility of downloading the software to install it on our own server.

Although the market is practically divided between these two solutions, there are still many more alternative options. Among these, Movable Type (paid), Joomla! and Drupal (these two, free) are the main ones.

The latest trends lead CMS to adjust their templates to the type of device and screen size on which the reader is working, either with a computer or a mobile.

You don't see a full stop or full stop to blogs

The tools (CMS) that make them possible are also used by large media communication, and publications in chronological order In reverse, they have permeated what could long ago be considered their natural successors: social networks. Both Facebook, Twitter or Google+ among others order the posts in reverse chronological order.

Twitter, in addition, was born with the label of social network from microblogging for being essentially a blog with a great limitation for the length of each entry.

By way of conclusionBlogs coexist with new formats and technologies and, to this day, their end is not in sight as we understand them today.

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