Guide To Blogging

The Importance of Blogs Nowadays

Blogs are the latest craze sweeping the internet, but have you ever wondered how blogs originated? In what must surely seem as the dark ages before blogs, people seeking the companionship of online communities were forced to rely mainly on mailing lists and bulletin boards for communication. By the 1990s, forums had made their appearance and allowed users to participate in conversations using ‘threads’, which were essentially areas of common interest.

Others looking like-minded individuals would set up an online log to share their beliefs and it is from this that the earliest blogs developed. In fact, these groundbreaking blogs were classified ‘online diaries’ and made their presence around 1994. However, it was three years before the term ‘blog’ was coined and the recognition for that goes to Jorn Barger. At present, there are many separate types of blogs. The most long-standing of these is still the online journal.

The earliest blogs were just another component of already established websites. These blogs were more suited to technologically advanced users and so weren’t widely accepted by the public. The advent of simple production and maintenance tools brought blogs to the masses, as it were. Now, blogs are easy to create, use and maintain. There are even specific services dedicated to hosting blogs. Alternatively blogs can be added to existing web hosting services using any of the plentiful blogging software available.

Some of the first hosted tools for blogs include LiveJournal, which opened its doors in 1999, and Open Diary, which carved a niche for itself at the time by being the first service to allow readers to post comments on users’ blogs. One of the biggest names in blogging is Blogger.com, which was becoming so recognized that it was bought over by Google in 2003.

Since this time, blogs have garnered increasing notice by majority media and companies. Blogs have taken an dynamic role in flouting and spinning news, and are even being used by administrative nominees as a way of considering public opinion and law application organizations as a means of outreach.

Blogs have enjoyed an unparalleled status as exemplified by Xanga, which hosted a mere 100 blogs in 1997, only to have this number explode to 50 000 000 by December 2005. This may be due, in part, to the prodigious flexibility of blogs. They can be for practically any purpose and while classical blogs involve generally of text, they can contain images and even videos.

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