Generally blogs have the most recent contribution as the first page of the blog. Other contributions may be found below, but usually are accessed by links. Sometimes they are provided in groups by topic and sometimes you can search for what you want.
Authors contribute to their blogs at varying rates. Those blogs with high readership can have an average of 10 updates per day. These may not be new messages. They may be additional or updated information being added to the current post. A considerable amount of time is invested into creating and updating blogs for the readers.

chart is from a 2008 study conducted by Technorati (company that researches, collects, organises, and distributes blogs)