blogging

IPA/ˈblɒɡɪŋ/
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blogging — noun

1. the activity of regularly writing and updating posts on a blog for readers onlin

1.nounB1
Definition

the activity of regularly writing and updating posts on a blog for readers online

Example

Eli started blogging during his year in Osaka and quickly found readers.

start blogging during + life period

Food blogging turned Pim's tiny home kitchen into a part-time business.

adjective + blogging: food blogging

Common collocations
  • food blogging
  • travel blogging
  • community blogging
  • start blogging
Synonyms
  • online journaling

    broader and often more private or diary-like than blogging

  • vlogging

    uses video instead of mainly written posts

Grammar Patterns

food blogging

travel blogging

blogging about + topic

Usage Note

Usually uncountable and refers to the ongoing activity as a whole, not to one single post. For one piece of writing, use 'blog post' or simply 'blog'.

Common Mistakes

She wrote a blogging about campus life.
She wrote a blog about campus life.
'blogging' names the activity, not one individual post.

blogging — verb

Word family

Synonym discussion

Sense: verb/1

To blog is to keep an online space active by adding written entries for readers over time. Post is broader: you can post one photo, short comment, or link without running a full blog. Vlog changes the medium from writing to video, even if the topic is the same. Journal often suggests more private, reflective writing and may never be shared publicly at all. Publish is the most formal word here and focuses on making content public, not on the personal, regularly updated style that blogging usually has. You might post a holiday photo, keep a journal about your feelings, or publish an article in a magazine, but you blog when you keep writing updates for an online audience.

post ↗vlog ↗journal ↗publish ↗

Common collocations

Nouns

Adverbs

Phrases

  • start blogging
  • blog about
  • blog for readers
  • travel blogging

Prepositions

Etymology

English

Blogging comes from the word blog, which is a shortened form of weblog, an English term that appeared in the late 1990s for a regularly updated website recording opinions, news, or personal experiences. As blog quickly became the everyday form, blogging developed as the -ing form for the activity of writing and updating those online entries. The meaning later widened from personal online diaries to topic-based, company, and professional websites.

First known use

1999

1999, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Verb