Technology / B1

BLOG/blɒɡ/

A blog is a website of dated posts. Article is wider; journal can mean an academic magazine (already in the dictionary). Do not cite a campaign blog as peer-reviewed evidence in exams. Source questions: a blog is not a journal.

Meaning

A website of short articles, usually in date order.

Examples

• “Do not cite a campaign blog as peer-reviewed evidence.”
• “The council blog summarised the by-law; the statutory notice is the legal text.”

Good to know

a blog; posts on a blog. Wider: an article. Mix-up: a journal (academic). Media literacy / exams. Verb: blog (rarer in careful news).

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