Changing The World: What Do You Know About Blogging?

Do you know about blogs? How about blogging? If not, read this.

A blog, actually is a blend of two terms from web and log, leading to the web log, weblog, and finally to just blog. A blog is an online website that is used like an online journal. It can serve as an important solution to help let people understand what you know or think about a particular topic. Like most other media access, blogs often focus on many particular topics. The topics can range to any kind of subjects, even discussing politics, sports, music, fashion, foods, whatever it can bring as long as it can reach the mind of the reader.

Since its appearance in 1995, blogs have dramatically changed the way of communication affecting public opinion and mass media around the globe. Blogs to be precise are connected to blog hosting services or it can be run by using blog software on regular web hosting services.

In relation, the term blogging is the process of authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog. For the person who posts blog entries is called a blogger.

 

For a blog post typically consists of:
•    The Title- main title or a headline
•    The Body- main content of the post
•    The Comments- added by readers
•    The Permalink- the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of all individual articles
•    The Post date- date and time the entry was posted

For some blog entry optionally includes the following:
•    The Categories or tags- subjects that the content discusses
•    The Trackback- links to other sites that are connected to the entry

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BLOGS

Blogs have the characteristics that separate them from a standard web page. Blogs allow easy production of new pages. Templates that are automated, safely adding the article to the homepage, resulting in the creation of the new full article page, and finally adding the article to the appropriate date.

Blogs differ from forums or newsgroups, for a reason that only the author or authoring group of the blog posted can create new subjects for discussion. Networks of blogs can serve just as if they were a forum.




HOW A BLOG IS MADE

Different kinds of system are used to produce and maintain blogs. A server-based system can eliminate the need for bloggers to manage the software. Web interfaces systems, users are allowed to work with tools such as Wordpress, Blogger, and Siteblog.

. For this operation, users are allowed to maintain their web-hosted blog even without the need to be online while making or editing entries. Some notable web hosting companies, such as Tripod, service provider like America Online, and internet portals like Yahoo or Google, provide blog production and hosting.

TYPES OF BLOGS

•    Personal- it is like making your diary but online. You can post different kind of thoughts or daily experiences just as if you were informing the world what is happening to you.
•    Career- usually focused on one’s professional ability and passion
•    Cultural- discusses sports, theatre, music and other arts. Among the most read blogs.
•    Business
•    Science
•    Moblog- a mobile blog, in which the content is posted to the internet from mobile device
•    Educational- that is used by students to record what they learn and mentors to record what they teach.

Blogs to this date can be very instrumental in reaching others and let them know your kind of thoughts, feelings, ability, passions and even make profits. Blogs are like a door to you that someone can knock on and enter into your life. Everyone should take advantage of such an opportunity.