by Ahmad Sadli

Created on: March 14, 2009   Last Updated: May 27, 2009

Blog is actually a certain kind of website. It's distinct feature is that it has an actively changing content in the form of new posting. The word blog is actually a derivation of web-log.

As in real life, some of us would have some sort of log book that we use to note something of worthy to be noted such as diaries, journal, short notes, anecdotes, or just anything worth while.

Using blog we could have do all of those things with computer and published it on-line so the people with Internet access could read it and probably give some sort of respond, usually in a form of comments.

All the data we wrote will be stored in an Internet server so we could recalled all the data back whenever we feel like to do. That's should be an advantage compared with usual log book which could sometimes gone missing when something wrong happen.

You actually also could set up your blog to be a private one which is limited to be accessed only by you yourself or your selected group of peoples.

Whichever format you might choose is up to you. There are various types and design of blog out there with different purposes.

The blog itself could be in various setting, formatting and inclining such as photo blog or video blog, rather than a normal journal-type blog. There are also a group of peoples working together on a single blog.

The guy who makes a blog and maintains it is called a blogger, while doing all of those blog things is called blogging.

To be a blogger and having a blog, you do not need a skill of a web designer. A basic understanding of how a blog works coupled with a passion in writing will do just fine. There a various company who provide blog service for those who aspire to be a blogger. Among those that are popular among blogger are Blogspot, Wordpress and Notepad, just to name a few.

When you write in your blog about certain things and published it to Internet readers, it is called posting, and your articles or photos are called post. How many post you like to write and how frequent you do the posting is up to you. You are the owner of your blog, you could do whatever you deem appropriate to your blog. Really, it's all up to you.

A blogger usually writes a certain kind of topic or niche which he knows most. When he do posting, he could expect to get certain reaction from readers. Should you open up to receive comments, it will be published in a comments link. This is the practice of many bloggers, though there are certain bloggers who block comments or publish

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