What's a Blog?

Many people doesn't seem to be clear with the idea of a 'blog'. A blog is nothing but a website which allows you t share your thoughts through text, photos and videos.The name blog came from the term web log which means website.

Unlike a website a blog has certain attributes which makes them easy to be distinguished

• the content on the blogs are always displayed in the form of posts.
  
• the viewer can comment on the posts which would be displayed below the corresponding blog.
• the person who write the posts in the blog is known as the author of the blog .
  
• even though a blog is maintained by a single person it may have two or more authors who contribute for the posts.

There are many types of blogs

Personal blogs : The author writes about his day to day happenings similar to diary writing

Corporate blogs: These blogs are maintained by business people to write about their products and services

Blogs by Topic: These blogs are those blogs which have information about a selected topic,genre etc., For example: Blogs on art, technology, movies, songs, recipe's etc.,

How Blogs have started to gain popularity among people?

The format of a blog is simple like that of writing a diary.

There are free blogging softwares (which would be discussed in my subsequent post's) which are simple to use.

Free hosting is available , so you need not spend money to maintain a blog.

As the popularity of your blog increases so do your financial status, as you can convert the popularity to effective earnings.