How to Blog and get Blogging
Computers and internet are rapidly changing the way we live our lives. Every field, be it education, entertainment or communication, is being transformed in a manner would could never imagine. The un-policed World Wide Web has opened hitherto unheard and unimagined realms of expression. This freedom and creativity gave birth to a phenomenon now popularly known as ‘blogging’.
Blogging is a process of writing or posting a blog on a website. A blog, derived from contraction of term ‘web log’ is a series of commentaries or log of events. It contains text as well as, more recently, images and video.
Blogging arena
Initially, it started as an online journal or internet version of a diary. It contained chronological record of events and was regularly updated. Over the years, its scope grew manifold and now virtually no subject is untouched by blogs. Number of blogging sites has increased manifold in recent years. Blogging is being used for personal as well as professional intention.
Types of blogs
Blogs have long back broken the shackles of personal experiences. The freedom and variety this platform offers is now exploited by many to achieve different motives. This gave rise to various types of blogs as under:
- Personal Blogs: As mentioned earlier, this type of blogs has postings of personal experiences, encounters and endeavors. This was the original purpose of blogging.
- Family Blogs: These blogs are for the members of particular family only. This enables sharing of photographs and other interaction amongst its members.
- Political Blogs: These contain recordings of political events and bloggers views about such events. These are used vehemently to propagate political ideologies.
- Technical Blogs: Blogs that are dedicated to technical subjects, reviews and writings are called technical blogs. This type is very rapidly growing amongst the lovers of technology.
- Business Blogs: Business has its own needs. Businessmen utilise business blogs as a forum to discuss various aspects of business.
- Travel blogs: These are one of the most popular types of blogs that features bloggers’ travelling experiences, tips and site photographs.
The list of types of blogs mentioned above is not exhaustive. You can derive your own type of blogs as per your need. Now a days, blogs are classified as per the media type and devices that are used for blogging.
Who can blog?
Absolutely anyone who can use computers and know a little about internet can start blogging. All you need is to do is sign up with some website that allows blogging, name your blog post and get going. A knack of writing could be an advantage as some of the sites offer payment depending upon the number of times your blog is read.
A word of caution
Though blogging gives you all the freedom of expression, its misuse may lead to charges of defamation and lawsuits. Various countries have laws enacted to prevent such misuse. So, you must be sure not to use abusive language or offend anybody’s modesty.
So, let the genuine creativity in you come out. Pour your heart’s and mind’s content on the web. Get a blog. Get blogging.
