Well, you already know that but i just want to start my blogging with the definition of ‘blog‘. A Blog is a journal or log which appears on a website. It is written online, read online and updated online. It’s there for anyone with an Internet connection to see and comment on. The entries or posts are organized in reverse chronological order with the newest post on top and the older staffs on the bottom. Some blogs resemble on-line magazines, complete with graphics, sidebars, and captioned photos. Others just have the name of the blog at the top and the dated entries under it. You can find blogs by doing a regular Google search for the blog name (if you know it) or by doing a Google Blog search using keywords.
The word “blog” is a portmanteau term for Web log or Weblog. In 1997 Jorn Barger, the keeper of Robot Wisdom, a Web site full of writings about James Joyce, artificial intelligence, and Judaism as racism (he’s reputedly a racist himself), coined the word “Weblog.” In 1999 Peter Merholz, the author of a Weblog called Peterme, split it in two like this—”We blog”—creating a word that could serve as either noun or verb. “Blog” was born.
Today there are, by one count, more than 100 million blogs in the world, with about 15 million of them active. There are political blogs, confessional blogs, gossip blogs, sex blogs, mommy blogs, science blogs, soldier blogs, gadget blogs, fiction blogs, video blogs, photo blogs, and cartoon blogs, to name a few. Reading blogs is not like reading a newspaper article or a book. Blog readers jump around. They follow links. They move from blogs to news clips to videos on YouTube, and they do it more easily than you can turn a newspaper page. They are always getting carried away—somewhere. Bloggers thrive on fragmented attention and dole it out too—one-liners, samples of songs, summary news, and summary judgments. Sometimes they don’t even stop to punctuate. And if they can’t put quite the right inflection on a sentence, they’ll often use an OMG (Oh my god!) or an emoticon, e.g., a smiley face 
or a wink 
or a frown 
instead of words.
That’s all for now. I’ll be back soon.
Posted by acherina on July 14, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I hope we can share ideas about blogging..