What is a Blog?

2005-07-20T14:36:00.000+07:00

I'd like to share some knowledge about blogs. You can say I am a newbie to blogging because I started blogging about 3 months ago. Though it has been a short time, I learned a lot. Before I started my blog, I knew nothing about blogging. Once, I found a blog and I followed the links and surfed around them. Since then I was hooked. And I thought about starting my own blog. It was easy as there are many free bloghost. I chose Blogger(or) Blogspot. And now you can see what a blog can be because you are reading my blog. The basics about blog and blogging are explained below. Read on!

A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” Source

Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in cronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominantly.’ Source

Blogs usually have a few features that are useful to know about if you want to get the most out of them as a reader. Lets examine a couple briefly.

Archives - You might look at the front page of a blog and think that there is not much to them. A few recent entries, some links to other sites and not much else. However its worth knowing that there is a lot more going on under the surface that might initially meet the eye. For example in addition to the main page of this blog - at the time of writing this post there are over 520 other pages or posts below the surface that I’ve written over the past few months.

You can read my ‘archives’ simply by looking on the ’sidebar’ (over on the left of this blog) at the ‘archives’ or ‘categories’ section. There you will see links to all my old posts which you can access by month.

Comments - Not all blogs use comments - but most do. This blog is not a monologue but a conversation. You can give me feedback on almost everything I write simply by clicking the ‘comments’ link at the bottom of each one of my posts. This will take you to a little form where you leave your name, email and a link to your own blog if you have one as well as your feedback, comment, critique, question, essay on why you love my blog, promise of money…. etc). Try it now.

Thanks to ProBlogger for the explanations. ProBlogger has many resources for blogging. I will write about my experiences with blog hosting platforms and why I chose Blogger in next post.

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