No longer do you have to be a journalist or a writer to make yourself heard. Blogs, or weblogs, have opened windows for personal expression and extensive sharing of information on the World Wide Web. Blogs are all about fresh perspectives and alternative voices.
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Perhaps the most exciting thing since the Email are blogs. A blog or weblog, as it was initially known, can be defined as being a personal website, usually a noncommercial one, that uses a log format to display its entries. Usually it is the most recent entries that appear on top with the older ones following below. A blog is updated constantly and often each blog are based on a certain topic, such as, politics, cinema, sports etc.
It is believed that the first blog did not appear till 1993. The term ‘weblog’ was coined in 1997 by Jorn Barger. In 1998 blogs were still new and used only by a handful of people. However, as happens so often with technology, the trend because popular almost overnight. By 1999 the media recognized the independent nature of blogging and the free weblog-creation programs established blogging as a hugely popular hobby.
With its popularity, the way blogs were used also began to change. Blogs started as an exchange of links and references that provided different opinions on matters. But soon blogging started overlapping with online journals. The fundamental difference between blogs and online journals, purists say, is that blogging is used to log information about activities that are happening on the world wide web where as online journals keep a log of the ‘real world’. This definition is blurring, however, and bloggers writing about their day-to-day life and opinions is rather common.
Blogs work as excellent filtering tools. Since blogs share links readers of blogs often find that blogs are a hotpot of useful, interesting, noteworthy or entertaining links. Blogs also become a hub of alternative viewpoints and fresh outlook on media driven news that is presented to the public.
But the reason blogs have become so extremely popular has to be because of the fact that anything can be posted on blogs: day-to-day events, opinions, rebuttals, essays, memories or even a simple passing comment.
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