Blogging in a Nutshell

Many know about this but many still don't. A friend of mine asked a question that most of us in the blogosphere find it really simple. What is blogging? Who has not heard of blogging? Of course she has but she wants an explanation.

When you try to surf in the internet, you will be amazed by the thousands of information you can get about one single thing. There are reviews, comments, forums, all directing to one thing. They were linking information to each other. They are linking words to websites and websites to another website. They are blogging. Bloggers update the information so fast.

Just recently, I could not forget how fast the world knew about the death of the King of Pop Michael Jackson. In seconds, the news scattered like a wildfire. In fact, twitter crashed and could not hold the traffic.

The word blog is a contraction of web log. We call every entry you made as posts. Blogs are more personal write ups, maybe but not formal journalism. You can easily differentiate a blog from a website since blogs are very dynamic. Guests who visit a blog can make a comment and have their opinions heard. Blogging is the easiest way to make your voice heard. Depending on how the author sets up his own blog, he can be public or private with few chosen people who can access his site. But most often than not, blogs are made public for all eyes to see.

So, it really doesn't matter if you are a professional writer or not. For as long as you can write anything, may it be formal or informal, you can start your own blog.

Not only that, you can also choose to monetise your webpage through ad networks. Ahh yes, the internet has become a fertile soil where anyone can invest time, skill, sometimes money to earn. It is a modern marketplace.

Here is a 2-minute video from Google to get you started with blogger.com


Hope that helps.