The word blog is short for Weblog. Blogs are normally small, personal sites where one writes down his/her thoughts on a certain subject. It can be thought of as a not-so-personal online diary. Your blog can be about anything you want. Many companies use blogs to spread information on a product or service. May be you have a certain hobby you love, you can start up a blog about and who knows, perhaps other hobbyists will find your site and share your passion.

Blogs are usually very simple, you have a section for your articles and on the side you may have some other features--such as a feed, archive, etc. Take a look at a few blogs first to get the feel of it. You will notice at first glance that a blog contains a few essentials: frequent posts, comments, and a xml feed.

Joomla! is a great tool to use for blogs. Because it has many features that other services like Wordpress and Blogger don't provide.

• Frontpage that displays all blog entries with pagination.
• Filter blog posts by user, tags, or keywords.
• RSS feeds.
• Simple and intuitive Dashboard for users to manage their blog posts, write or edit a new entry.
• Powerful admin backend.
• Avatar support (SMF, gravatar, Community Builder).
• Community Builder integration.
• Joomla! Content Mambot integration (Google Adsense bot, All Videos bot, etc)
• Fast templating system, similar to Jom Comment's
• Built-in image browser
• Jom Comment integration