What is a Blog?

October 25th, 2008 | Posted in Blogging Tips, Make Money Online, Marketing Tools-Resources

This Post Is For A Real Beginner!

Before one enters into the blogging it is better to know what a blog is all about. There are varieties of ways to answer this question, from the simplest way to a highly technical one. Given below are few definitions of a blog.

A blog is a chain of text, images, data and media objects put together in a chronological order that could be viewed with the help of a HTML browser.

A blog is a recurrent, chronological publication of individual thoughts and web links.

A blog is principally a journal that is exists on the web. The process of keeping it updated is known as blogging and a person who owns a blog is known as a blogger.

A blog is a type of repeated journey with a human guide who you get to know. There are a number of guides to choose from, each creates an audience and there also politics among the people who blog. They point out to each other in many ways.

Blogs are normally updated everyday using softwares that let people with little or no technical knowledge to update and maintain a blog. The posting present in a blog are at all times set in chronological order.

A blog is a website where matters are posted daily and arranged in reverse chronological order. The word blog is abbreviated form of weblog or web log. Creating a blog, maintaining it or posting an article to a prevailing blog is known as blogging. Individual articles on a blog are known as blog posts, posts or entries. The person who publishes these posts is known as a blogger. A blog includes text, hypertext, links and images. Blogs make use of a spoken style of documentation. Normally every blog aims at a particular area of interest.

To make it easier – blog is a kind of website that is normally put in chronological order from the latest post on top of the page to the older posts towards the end. Blogs are mostly written on a specific subject. There are a huge range of blogs on any subject you can think of. There are blogs on politics, education, writing, personal account and much more. The whole blog communities have mushroomed around these subjects putting people into touch with one another where they can learn, make friends, discuss ideas as well as do business with people with same tastes from across the globe.

Blogs normally have some characteristics that are helpful to understand if you wish to get the most from them as a reader. Here are a few of them:

Archives: By looking at the first page of the blog you might come to a conclusion that there is nothing much in it. Some latest posts and a few links to some other sites and that’s it. But you should know that there are a many unseen things that might catch your interest. Apart from the main page of the blog there are a number of posts that are published sometime before. When a fresh post is published it appears on the first page and as it gets older and new posts are published it goes out of the first page. But this is not the end of those older posts; it just enters into the archives of the blog. You can go through the posts in the archive just by looking on the sidebar at the archives or categories section. There you will find links to the older posts.

Comments: Not every blog make use of comments, but most of them do. A blog is not a soliloquy but a conversation. You can give your feedbacks to a blog on any posts. At the end of each post you will find a comments button. You can leave your comments just by clicking it and keying your comments. The best way to understand what a blog is all about is to go through a few of them. You would understand it even better if you start one of your own.

Millions of people all around the world own a blog. It is not for any particular group of people. You need not be a computer expert to start one either. By just having access to internet just once or twice a week, you could start a blog and maintain it.

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17 Comments

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    cynthia jacquline // November 6th, 2008 at 4:19 am

    A blog is an exciting, different and easy way of having own web site. The word is short for “web log”, and that is exactly what it is, a web site that is like a log or journal. If you have a blog, you can become part of the web and it’s community of bloggers.
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    Armen Shirvanian // November 13th, 2008 at 1:09 am

    It is a wonderful idea to look back at the foundation of items that we take part in. We have to remember the basis of what we are doing, and how it is perceived by those that run across it. A blog that was not in reverse chronological order would probably look very awkward if someone came up on it without knowing its system.

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    The Niche Blogger // February 21st, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    Great summary. I’m sure any newcomer reading this will find it helpful :)

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    Meeting rooms // March 2nd, 2009 at 11:47 am

    It really awesome when people define a term in a million words but all mean the same thing. Thanks for summarising it a such an easy and basic terms.

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    Forex world trade // March 10th, 2009 at 9:50 pm

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    The Blogger Source // April 14th, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    Simple yet there are still many who don’t know what a blog is, and they need it simple.

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    daniele // April 17th, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    I like very much this sentence: ” A blog is not a soliloquy but a conversation”, infact I always try to communicate with my readers in my posts and I often move them to comment…

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    Sherry // April 22nd, 2009 at 4:21 am

    great info, I bet my friends will like to read it

  10. 10
    peraduanku // April 29th, 2009 at 12:27 pm

    Before i know what blog is, i always define it as online journal.

  11. 11
    irish // April 30th, 2009 at 2:47 am

    blogs are spread now worldwide, it really improves communication wherein people are involved.

  12. 12
    jogzzkie // April 30th, 2009 at 11:25 am

    i defined blog as an online diary though hahaha

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    imthiyas arafath // June 6th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    thanks for sharing man.

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    Tej Kohli // August 12th, 2010 at 3:37 am

    Yeah that a Great Post you write .. Its gives good understanding about Blog … Something missing please mention some avenues where we can make blog

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