Blogging guide: What does blogging mean?
You’re venturing on a road that will teach you how to become a good blogger and how to get a couple of money out of this. But first, let’s see what a blog is.
According to Wikipedia, "a blog (a contraction of the term "Web log") is a web site, 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 ".
What does this mean? A blog is just a site, where the owner posts whatever he or she wants: text, pictures, videos, etc. Each thing written is called a post, and the posts are displayed in reverse-chronological order – the latest post is the first in the list.
What’s the difference between a blog and o regular website? Well, there are a few. First of all, a blog is content biased, but a site can have many purposes: can be a newspaper’s online edition, an online shop, a video sharing site, a social service, etc. So, you can mostly compare blogs to content websites. But there are still differences.
A couple of years ago, blogs were the thing that revolutionised the online content. Content sites were clambered and over stuffed with information. Readers wanted an easier way to digest all that information, with a lighter simpler layout. And that was given by the frugal blogs: a big column with posts , a comments box , a menu and a search bar. That was all they had. Nowadays, some of the biggest content sites are built on the same simple principles of a blog: Engadget.com , thehuffingtonpost.com , gizmodo.com . Big online newspapers also adopted the light blog look too: wsj.com , nytimes.com .
Blogs have come a long way since their beginning, nowadays being the most popular way of displaying online content and a symbol of the WEB 2.0 episode. They can display content, pictures, videos, services, animations, etc. But blogging is still in its early days, there are still lots of things to come and evolve.
That’s it for the first step of our journey. In the next post, you’re going to learn a couple of things about how to start blogging.
Good to remind the basisc!
Blogging is a Good and Great thing. Many bloggers are there, but few bloggers can succeed. Blogging is not a smile because they need to gain the hearts of visitors. Needs to increase the number of the loyal visitors. So they should be creative, innovative & be specific in writing posts.
I love my blog and other blogs! I knew a lot of new friends using blog in ru net.
P.S. How do U think, Is wiki blog???