in it most simplistic variant its a single persons journal posted to a website. however the range all the way to corporate sites about new products to several people writing news to many people writing many things.
livejournal.com, blogger.com, slashdot.com. my weblog entry for the day was about how blog has sprung up in use with online journals because people were getting them confused with server logs.
A web server commonly used to host Java enterprise applications. It works just good enough that it is not cast aside, but not poor enough that someone has been convinced to write a better tool. Frequently, unexpected errors will surface without justification, and can be solved by restarting the server.
User 1: Why doesn't this damned thing work!?!
User 2: Have you tried restarting the weblogic server?
User 1: ...DAMMIT! Now it works!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)