Weblog as a New Phenomenon in Internet
Recently, Internet has been developed radically. We are familiar with e-mail for some years, but now we are facing what called ‘weblog’ as a new service in Internet. Weblog—or blog in short—is a kind of personal website. The term was used firstly by Jorn Barger in December 1997 (Blood, 2000) to name personal sites containing list of links that has been visited and added commentary by the editor referred to as a ‘blogger.’ In the first time, weblogs were only created by those who already knew how to make a website. However, since August 1999 there is a rapid growth of weblog as Pyra launched Blogger.com, a tool to build our own weblog freely even without knowing much about the code HTML (Nasution, 2001).
Suddenly a community of weblog sprang up. There are more than 100,000 weblogs that using Blogger.com services. In addition, there are other sites providing a tool to build weblog, such as Groksoup, Velocinews, and Edit This Page. All of these services are free and also designed to make individuals can publish their own weblog fast and without difficulty (Blood, 2000).