What is a Blog ?
August 10, 2008 4:25 am Blog, UncategorizedBlog is an abbreviated term for Weblog, a type of website usually maintained by an individual author (can be maintained by multiple authors in a team), with regular entries of comments, description of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Using a Blog an individual(called Blogger) can express his/her views or ideas, that may be personal or specifically on a niche topic ( Sports, News, Technology, Photography, Political, and any other unique/creative topic taken by blogger ).
Many blogs provide information or news on a particular niche topic; other blogs act as personal online diaries. A typical Blog entry contains text, images, videos and links to other related topics in blogs, web sites and other media related to the topic. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog) & audio (podcasting). Entries displayed on a blog are commonly in reverse-chronological order.
A Blog enables it’s reader to leave comments on each individual blog post & intereact with the blogger. In this way a blogger can get the feedback from it’s visitors. A feedback helps the blogger to write something new on the related topic, as to maintain their visitors & increase their knowledge in the specific field. But In case of a personal blog it could be just for fun & enjoyment.
Blogs commonly have few things displayed on their sidebar:
1. RSS / FEED (Reader can subscribe to this feed through a reader (Google reader,Feedburner etc.)
2. Calender
3. Categories
4. Latest archives
5. BlogRoll / Links (Related sites)
You can insert many other widgets on your blog sidebar making your blog more attractive for readers / Visitors.
