Initial Thoughts on blogging.

A blog is an updating website with people’s points of view, very often personal ones with different types of links and commentary.  It can have different styles of writing and links but usually the gender of the writer is very clear. Blogging is one of the most popular ways of self-expressions among the internet generation.

“A blog is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.” (Hewitt, 2005)

Evan Williams, one of the creators of the popular blogging tool Blogger, is succinct in his definition:

“To me, the blog concept is about three things: Frequency, Brevity, and Personality.(..) This clarification has evolved over time, but I realised early on that what was significant about blogs was the format — not the content.”

Blogging is one of the best ways to communicate and give information. It’s like a very big online diary that the world can read. People can express their points of view on a particular subject. Blogs can help many people with finding  jobs because they can advertise themselves and show their personality by doing  that. There are different opinions about blogging. There are some good and some bad ones. Here are some examples of different opinions about that:  

“Blogs are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site.“
Mike Davidson

“Blogs are for anoraks that couldn't get published any other way.”
Janet Street-Porter

“First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago. “
Carl Wilson

Blogs can give people loads of very interesting and important information. They can also show different points of view on one subject.

“I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show. “
Mark Edwards

Blogging may have a big influence on people’s thinking by writing about different, sometimes very important, information for different people.

“I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening. “
Daryl Hannah

To create a great and successful blog the blogger has to be a great researcher, good journalist or writer. The blogger has to find and choose  the most interesting  topics and show this in a way which is relevant to their point of view. The sad truth about blogs is that nowadays there are more writers of blogs than readers.

Another point about blogging can be the information people want to show to the reader. Some of the writers want to share their lives by posting about their private lives, some want to share their trips and the rest have knowledge about a particular subject and they want to share this. All of them are very important and interesting for different groups of people. The reason for that is because there are a lot of different kinds of people’s personalities and everyone would like to read about different things.

If you want to start your own blog you have to ask yourself what kind of blog and posts you want to have in order to gain people who will spend their time on this and read it.  Although blogs are very popular around the world, you have to have an idea in order to become successful in that way of expressing yourself.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

-          Finest quotes (2011) [online}http://www.finestquotes.com/select_quote-category-Blogs-page-0.htm

-          Hugh Hewitt (2005) Blog.