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 Blogging has become extremely popular now on the internet but what exactly is a blog. Blog is an abbreviation of Web Log and is a website where an individual can enter information that is stored in a reverse chronological order. Blogging is the term for collective term used for actively participating in blogs. The purpose of blogging can range from giving information to having a personal online diary. Blogs can be set to public where anyone can view them or to private where you need to be invited by the blog owner to view the information stored there. Blogging also allows people to leave comments on the entries made by the owner of the blog. Technology has come a long way since the first sites allowing blogging were created and now, although they still remain a mostly text format, there is the capability to add music, video, photos and sketches to your blog.
Generally speaking blogs tend to have certain features in common. Firstly a main content area with articles listed chronologically and often the articles are organised into categories. Secondly they will have an archive of older articles. Thirdly they will have a method for people to leave comments about the articles. Fourthly there will be a list of links to other related sites,, this is called a blogroll. Finally they will have one or more feed like RSS, Atom or rdf files. It is now estimated that the popularity of blogging has grown to the size of 112 million blogs online! |
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