A blog is a web log. To log is to record a thing. The referred to web is not an artistically spun spider's web; it is the cyber space place where web pages are found when we venture out into cyber space.
I seem to recall that web logs were originally created by folks working with, exploring and/or experimenting with computer technology and programming and creating software. Web logs were then a way to log and to share project related information.
Web logs, it appears to me, then evolved into web journals; which are a type of public bulletin board filled with whatever information, thoughts or nonsense an individual might decide, or dare, to pin up there.
We now call these Blogs - and to keep a blog is to be a blogger and the act of posting a message is to be blogging.
Not all web logs share really useful information. Now a days ANYONE AT ALL who has access to a computer that travels into cyber space can become a 'blogger'. I believe the realm of cyber space occupied by bloggers is now called 'the bloggersphere'.
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