What is blogging today?

Initially wanted to call the article "What is a Blog?" But then thought about "what's that?" Know today, almost everything. The popularity of blogs is growing.




"What is a blog?". It would seem that the answer is obvious. For the same, why there is a normal paper diary. After all, in fact a blog - an electronic analog of an ordinary paper diary. That's the way it is, of course, true, but there are some features and differences. Electronic Network Diary is not enough that in many respects different from its paper counterpart, it's still so widespread notion that to answer this question (what for?) Is unlikely to succeed as clearly as the first (what's this?).



Of course, like any diary, a blog of its owner can write his life story, its interesting events, thoughts, and other interesting and useful to the owner of the diary information. The main difference between networking diary from the paper - the availability of the diary other network users. Maintain closed for all a blog does not make much sense, since this blog can be carried in any text editor and offline. And in that case no need to hold a telephone line with modem connection, or pay for traffic when connecting via the Internet line.



At the same time, blogs today are people who would never, never occurred to keep a diary on paper. The fact that a blog - it's not so much a means of fixation on the media, as a means of communication, exchange of information between network users. It is the desire of people to communicate and make blogs such a popular phenomenon.





In addition, developers of Internet diaries add to their services more and more new and useful features: photo albums, store links, file storage, recently the service liveinternet.ru the diary has been built form and resume, the user can fill or not fill in discretion, and has recently added search service classmates / fellow students and the search service colleagues and specialists. Moreover, if in order to make a homepage, needed at least a basic knowledge of HTML, then blogging does not require any special knowledge. All this will stimulate growth in popularity of blogging in the future.



Most popular in runet while still famous Livejournal.com (so-called blog), which comes on the heels liveinternet.ru (called lira). Moreover, in some technical aspects of the lira, in my opinion, has surpassed its main rival. Another popular service that provides service to blogging, I would pick: blogger.com (with which I began my way).



If you do not have your own blog, strongly advise you to start it. And you'll see a couple of weeks, keeping a diary questions like: "Why do you need to run their network diary?" Disappear by themselves.