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In its most mundane form, a blog is merely an online public diary that whoever feels like update with their daily humeure, rant or enthusiasm.
In The salmon of doubt, Douglas Adams makes some comments which provide the perfect definition of the blogging system.
Adams is, after all, the one who foresaw the web 2.0, that of the social network, before the web1.0, its cozy version from the military.