Blogs
June 6, 2008 – 8:15 am
A Blog or web log is a term used for websites which keep the continuous chronicle or journal of information and display’s entries in reverse sequential order. A blog is frequently updated with entries of observations, commentary, event descriptions, or some other material like video or graphics. It is a form of personal diary maintained by an individual where he can write his thoughts. It often reflects the happening’s of the blogger’s life. A person’s blog is whatever he desires it to be. They don’t have to follow any rules and can be of any size or shape. Blogs may vary from personal to political and can concentrate on one small topic or a complete series of them.
The term weblog was coined by Jorn Barger and later abridged to blog by Peter Merholz. Initially blogs weren’t very popular. It was only in the year 1999 that blogs usage began to spread. Last few years has seen a great rise in popularity of blogs. There are currently more than 112 million blogs. Blogs are much more than only pages with links and texts. They reflect their owner’s personality and life. They are their owner’s interest, imagination ad wit. Everyone from students to celebrities has been bitten by the blog bug. This has happened because if offers a cheap and simple way for people with just the internet connection to be able to start a global publication for themselves. They have become so immensely popular that some large and popular web blogs attracts the volume of traffic which can create a feeling of jealousy even among the big websites. A very important part of blogs is the option for a reader to be able to leave his comments on the blog which can be read by other’s visiting it.
People often come up with some very important issues and events affecting our society on their blog and help generate awareness among people. They offer alternate voices that had never been heard before. Blogs have further had a big role in shaping, breaking, and revolving new stories. They have today become a medium of news spreading.