（文章来源：春泥博客）这是一篇关于博客的文章，文章介绍了博客的由来和发展状况，博客与传统媒体的区别，博客的种类，以及一些最新的手机博客的内容。简单翻译一下（Rough Translation）。
When important events are happening around the world, most people turn to traditional media sources, such as CNN and BBC, for their news. However, during the invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies in early 2003, a significant number of people followed the war from the point of view of an anonymous Iraqi citizen who called himself “Salam Pax”(salam means“peace”in Arabic, and pax means“peace”in Latin).
（当世界上发生一些大事的时候，大多数人就去查阅像CNN，BBC一类的传统媒体，来了解新闻。但是，在2003年美国和其盟国入侵伊拉克的时候，许多人就从伊拉克的平民那里获得这次战争的最新消息。）
Salam Pax wrote a diary about everyday life in Baghdad during the war, and posted it on his web site. Pax’s online diary was a kind of web site known as a“blog.”Blogs, short for“web-logs,”are online diaries, usually kept by individuals, but sometimes by companies and other groups of people. They are the fastest growing type of web site on the Internet. In 2003, there were estimated to be several hundred thousand blogs on the Internet, and the number was growing by tens of thousands a month.
（伊拉克人用日记的形式记录了战争中巴格达的平民的生活，，这些日记就是所谓的“博客”，博客（Blog）是Web-Logs 的简称，通常是由个人来维护的，有的博客是有多个人或者公司来管理的。博客是互联网上增长最快的一类网站。在2003年，互联网上有几十万博客，并且这个数量以每月几万的数量增长。）
A blog differs from a traditional web site in several ways. Most importantly, it is updated much more regularly. Many blogs are updated every day, and some are updated several times a day. Also, most blogs use special software or web sites which are specifically aimed at bloggers, so you don’t need to be a computer expert to create your own blog. This means that ordinary people who may find computers difficult to use can easily set up and start writing their own blog. In 2003, the Internet company AOL introduced their own blogging service, enabling its 35 million members to quickly and easily start blogging.
（博客和传统的网站有诸多不同。最主要的不同是，博客更新更频繁。许多博客每天更新，许多几个小时更新一次。并且，博客应用了一种专为“Blogger”设计的软件，所以 写博客是一件非常容易的事情。20003年AOL推出了博客服务，这使得AOL的35M用户很容易的开始写博客。 ）
There are many different kinds of blogs. The most popular type is an online diary of links, where the blog writer surfs the Internet and then posts links to sites or news articles that they find interesting, with a few comments about each one. Other types are personal diaries, where the writer talks about their life and feelings. Sometimes these blogs can be very personal.
（博客有很多种类，最多的是包含链接的博客日记，博客作者贴出自己网上冲浪的时候遇到的新闻，并且文章附上作者的评论。另外的一类博客是纯粹的网上日记，主要记录作者的心情，有些时候，这种博客含有一些非常个人的信息）
There is another kind of blogging, called“moblogging,”short for“mobile blogging.” Mobloggers use mobile phones with cameras to take photos, which are posted instantly to the Internet. In 2003, the first international mobloggers conference was held in Tokyo.
（还有一类博客是所谓的“手机博客”，人们用手机拍照，并且立即将照片传到互联网上，2003年“第一届手机博客大会”在东京开幕。）
The use of mobile phones in this way made the headlines in Singapore when a high school student posted on the Internet a movie he had taken of a teacher shouting at another student, and tearing up the student’s homework. Many people were shocked by the student posting a video of the incident on the Internet, and wanted phones with cameras to be banned from schools. Many people think that as blogs become more common, news reporting will rely less on big media companies, and more on ordinary people posting news to the Internet. They think that then the news will be less like a lecture, and more like a conversation, where anyone can join in.
（在新加坡，一个学生把老师训斥学生，撕碎学生作业的视频公开在互联网上。这里可成为了头条新闻。许多人看到这个视频后非常震惊，并且他们希望学校禁止学生在学校使用手机。许多人觉得因为博客越来越普及，新闻报道的来源将不再依靠媒体公司，更多的人会把新闻发表在互联网上，新闻也不再像“演讲”一样，而是像“对话”一样，每个人都能参与。）
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