As I promised, here goes my very first post on the Blogger Series. I am sure if you are reading this post, then you definitely know couple of basic things about blogging. But I will try to incorporate most of the things I personally know about blogs.

So the very first question – WHAT IS BLOG?

WHAT IS BLOG : As defined in Wikipedia, A blog (short of web log) is a web-site where entries are written and displayed in reverse chronological order. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of blogs. Most of the blogs are primarily textual, although there are various other kinds like photolog (Photo Blog), vlog (Video Blog), podcasting (Audio Blog) and the most searched adult blogs. In nutshell -

  • A blog is a specialized web-site which consists of post which are regularly updated.
  • Each post has a date of entry and the posts are displayed in the reverse chronological order. LAST POST DISPLAYED FIRST.
  • Only blog owner can update or edit the blog posts. But there are team blogs also. The readers can add their views as comments but can’t edit the existing content.
  • Every blog has its own URL like http://bokinfo.blogspot.com/
  • Each post has its own web address or URL called as PERMALINK (short of permanent link). like : http://bokinfo.blogspot.com/2007/08/blogging-series-chain-of-posts.html
  • The blog may contain anything the author wants to share with the world, his feelings, observations, critics etc etc…

Blogging is a new phenomenon which is growing very rapidly and is here to stay for a long long time. Blogging has changed the way of journalism, has given voice to everyone. Earlier if a person wanted to say something, he has to contact lot of publishers and then find an audience. But now with blogging, you can convey your message to the world within fraction of seconds. I think enough said about What the blog is all about.

My next post in this series will be “How to Blog” that will contain information on what all platforms are available today for blogging. So keep on reading and let me know how did you like this post and if you want to add any comment on this series….


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