Blog hopping is to follow links from one blog entry to another, with related side-trips to various articles, sites, discussion forums and more. The first use of the term weblog. ... Gaia Online, the largest English language forum-based community as of April 2005 — powered by phpBB. An Internet forum is a web application which provides for discussion, often in conjunction with online communities. ...
One can blog hop through the links provided in a blog and follow them, to the next blog and so on.
Blogger took a major step to encourage blog hopping by replacing the ads on Blogspot-hosted blogs with a floating toolbar with a "next blog" button at the top of every page.
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Entry on blog-hopping from Amidst a Tangled Web explains more about how it can work.
Although some blogs invite feedback and comments from visitors, Internet newsgroup discussions, which started long before the Web, tend to be more question-and-answer oriented (see newsgroup).
Blogs took off in 1999 after blog development applications such as Pitas, Blogger and GrokSoup were released.
Many blog sites offer an RSS or Atom syndication feed that provides headlines of their latest entries along with URLs to the content (see syndication feed).
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