Blog is a short version of the term ‘web log.’ The common blog is a publicly accessible web-based journal. Blogs allow the posting and updating to the journal by non-technical people. Now almost anyone can start a blog! (www.blogger.com is one site) The first blogs were personal journals but their flexibility and simplicity have made blogs popular in business and academia as an enterprise knowledge management tool for internal use. A cousin to blog is in the form of what is called wiki. -- blog vs. wiki A wiki is a collaborative