Glad to see folks came to the blog after I sent out the e-mail. I heard from many of you this was your first interaction with a blog. Let me give you a bit of blog history....Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. They became popular during the 2004 campaigns, with candidates and other interested parties starting blogs discussing the issues and throwing mud about other candidates. If you recall, Howard Dean's grassroots campaign utilized blogs heavily. Then he went nuts. Now television shows and personality as well as other celebrities use blogs. There are over 7 million in existence, mostly just people like you and me. I'll put a link for Brian Williams' blog, he is the NBC Nightly News dude and he talks about how the news gets put together each night. It is kind of interesting.

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