blog
Word family
Synonym discussion
Sense: noun/1
For this sense, blog means a regularly updated online place for posts, so it is narrower than website, which can be any kind of site at all. Online diary is closer, but it usually sounds more personal and focuses on private experience, while a blog can also cover food, travel, business, or school news. Column often means a regular piece in a newspaper or magazine, including online ones, and it sounds more professional or edited than blog. Use blog when you want to stress frequent posts and a direct voice from the writer or team. You can say Priya runs a food blog, but a museum usually has a website and may also publish a blog on it.
Common collocations
Etymology
Blog began as weblog, a late twentieth-century English word built from web and log. It first meant a running record kept on the World Wide Web. Speakers soon shortened weblog to blog, and the shorter form became the normal word for both the site and the activity of posting on it.