Thursday, April 10, 2008

BLOGGING


BLOGGING.



Express Yourself & Publish the wildest of your thoughts on Internet, that is BLOG.
The word BLOG is portmanteau term for WEB LOG. It is an easy to use & free website where you can post your thoughts quickly. The audience will be the whole world who uses Internet. Blog is frequently updated, diary-type commentary and links to articles on other Web sites. Blogs range from the personal to political, and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects.
Many people use blog just to organize their own thoughts, while others influence worldwide audiences of thousands through blogs. Journalists use blogs to publish breaking news, while personal journalers reveal inner thoughts. Whatever you have to say, Blogs help you say it and loudly.
Blogging is not just expressing your thoughts on the Internet, it is connecting with all those who read your blog. They are considered as your friends. Blog has the facility to put feedbacks on your posts. You can decide whether you want a feed back or delete the feed backs received as and when you feel so.
Many organizations use blogs to hear their employees. It also is used in Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives to capture and create a knowledge data base. Using Blog for publishing classified information or personal defamation may attract legal action.
Blog sites provide variety of tools to format and make your blog site attractive. Blog writing is not just text typing, you can load a variety of other media like pictures, videos, animations etc. Blog writer can create his own profile on his blog site, the way in which he wants the world to see him.
There are numerous blog sites. Blogger (blogspot.com) owned by Google, WordPress Blog (wordpress.org/development), Blogflux (blogflux.com) etc. Today there are, by one count, more than 100 million blogs in the world, with about 15 million of them active. Every Sport event, War, Natural Disaster etc sprout large number of bloggers.
Reading blogs is not like reading a newspaper article or a book. Blog readers jump around. They follow links, move from blogs to news clips to videos on YouTube, and they do it more easily than you can turn a newspaper page.
Large number of bloggers are masked heroes. Whether they tell the truth or really are who they claim to be is another matter. They are what they write. And you can't fake that.