What is a Blog?

What is Blog? Even though, Blog is a very popular medium, Many people of India & other countries still don’t know What is Blog?
Since last, Decade Blogs & Blogging has becoming more and more popular. But still many people around this world don’t know What is Blog? And why it became so much popular?
Well, According to Wikipedia, “A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.”
Now Let us discuss – “What is Blog?” in Layman’s Language.
Well, A Blog is nothing but one type of modified web site. Where you can post a regular post. Commonly these posts (Articles) arrange in Chronological orders means newest post first and oldest post at last.
On the main page of the Blog, around 5,10,20 or so recently posted articles (posts) are displayed. The more you post, your older articles go back and eventually disappear from the main page. Well, it doesn’t mean that they are now not valuable. The old posts are still valuable and goes into Blog Archive & anyone can access those articles from the Blog Archive section in the future.
However, if he/she finds it interesting, he/she can anytime access the older posts by going into Blog Archive Section.
Blogs were first time introduced in this world in around 1998-1999.
What is Blog Platform?
Well, Blog Platform is the Blog Hosting server. There are many Blog platforms on the web but 2 most reputed and famous blog platforms are Blogger & Wordpress.
This blog is on a Blogger Platform.
What are the uses of Blog?
A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.
Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules
A blog gives you your own voice on the web. It's a place to collect and share things that you find interesting— whether it's your political commentary, a personal diary, or links to web sites you want to remember.
Many people use a blog just to organize their own thoughts, while others command influential, worldwide audiences of thousands. Professional and amateur journalists use blogs to publish breaking news, while personal journalers reveal inner thoughts.
Blogging is about more than just putting your thoughts on the web. It's about connecting with and hearing from anyone who reads your work and cares to respond. With your Blog, you control who can read and write to your blog — let just a few friends or the entire world see what you have to say!
Blogger Comments let anyone, anywhere, offer feedback on your posts. You can choose whether you want to allow comments on a post-by-post basis, and you can delete any comments you don't like.
Access Controls let you decide who can read and who can write to your blog. You can use a group blog with multiple authors as an excellent communication tool for small teams, families and other groups. Or as a single author, you can create a private online space for collecting news, links, and ideas, to keep to yourself or share with as many readers as you want.
Blogger Profiles let you find people and blogs that share your interests. Your Blogger Profile, where you can list your blogs, your interests, and more, lets people find you (but only if you want to be found).
You can also post only photographs on your Blogs also.
Postsecret.blogspot.com is one such type of very popular blog where the blog owners post only photographs.
A Blog can be an Educational Blog Such as this Blog is an online Internet Entrpreneurship Blog.
In other words, A Blog can be anything. It can be from your personal diary to a mass communication tool.
Let us discuss something exciting about Blogs -
So by now, you know almost everything about “What is Blog?”  So now let us discuss something exciting and adventurous about Blogsphere.
All of you know that Blogger is the most famous and reputed Blogging platform. Do you know that who had founded Blogger?



Well, Evan Williams (In Photos), a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur had founded Blogger in August 1999, which he had sold to Google in February 2003.

After that in year 2006, he had founded the Twitter. And all of you know that Twitter is a micro blogging platform & it is growing at the fastest ever rate right now. And now again he is planning to sell Twitter to Google.
In short, Evan Williams is a Serial Technopreneur, who has changed the shape of blogsphere by creating Blogger & Twitter. Right now Twitter is becoming more and more popular day by day.
So Blogging is a Fun And Excitement. Blogging is the powerful tool to make money online also. After all this is the Information Age & your success depends on how many eye balls (web traffic) you control….

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