A blog originally was a personal website meant to be like a diary or
journal. If you are familiar with Facebook or MySpace, these sites and their
user pages are a derivative of blogs. The word blog is the shortened version of
the word weblog. A person would usually create a blog as a hobby to share their
information and experience on a particular subject. The blogs are designed to
be very easy to add new entries to, so the information on blogs is updated much
more frequently than a traditional site. As the blogger adds entries to the
blog, the viewers can add comments to the entries, so the blog becomes an
interactive site. If the blogger is interesting it does not take long for that
blog to create quite a following.
Blogs have been around for a few years now and have been heavily
commercialized for business blogging so that today as you surf the web you
often do not know if you are looking at a blog website or a traditional html
website. Truth be told though it does not matter what type of website it is,
they are both designed to do the same thing…. get information out to the
public.
There is a common misconception that blogging requires a certain level of
sophistication and that the whole process is complicated. I assure you that
driving a car is much more complicated than blogging. The fact that you have
found this article is proof enough that you can blog. If you have a passion for
something, whatever the subject is, and you want to tell others what you know
about that subject, you can be a big help to someone else who is interested in
the subject but does not have the experience or knowledge about it that you do.
That is the spirit behind blogs and it is why blogs are such a huge part of the
internet culture of our day.
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