Blogging is where a person can document on whatever matter they want, adding new blogs to there list at any time they want. Bloggers can edit previous blogs, recieving comments on there blog and respond to the comments. Popular things to blog on include news storys, debates and reviews. A blog primerilly contains text but can include many forms of media. A blog can be private or open for anyone to see.
It is said that blogging started in 1994, around the colleges in the USA. These blogs were able to cope with text, picture, video and sound. Open Diary was launched in October 1998 which helped shoot blogging to popularlity.
In 2001 a series of popular blogs emerged, including Ron Gunzburger's - Politics1.Com. Many of the popular blogs from the early 2000s were politics related, with people giving there opinions on political matters at that spacific time.
Social network sites like facebook, myspace and bebo also allow users to blog. The move to bring in blogs brought many bloggers to social networking sites and encouraged people who joined there site to blog more often. 238
Website Twitter brought another new way to blog, it allows you to update what you are doing as often as you want in 140 characters or less. This type of blogging is called micro-blogging. Twitter allows you to follow other people and you get regularly updated as they update there page. There are many celbraties using the sevice and lots of fans take advantage of being able to get closer to them
Blogging is massive part of the internet these days and it looks set to keep growing. Wether it kills of newspapers and magazines it remains to be seen and im sure we will find out in the coming years.
Tommy Wilson
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