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STARTING YOUR OWN BLOG

I was sitting in my local cybercafé yesterday; I like to get away from my “home office” from time to time and it’s a great place to go for a cup of Espresso and to meet interesting people. The rather attractive lady sitting next to me was typing away and, when she had finished, I asked her what she was writing so furiously. It turned out she was a blogger and she was updating her web site. She was really

interested in vegetarian cookery and she was adding a new restaurant review to her blog.

If you spend any time at all online, you can notice blogs are becoming popular; and they are a great way of building an online presence without the need for any technical knowledge.

A blog is an abbreviation of the term “web log”. Quite a few years ago, web surfers began collecting information and links that they encountered during their online travels. As time passed, they started to create logs of the information that they collected and they started to develop their own web logs. These blogs enabled

them to update the information and links as often as they wished. Blogs are more permanent than posts to an online forum or to a discussion list; they are much more dynamic than the traditional home pages. They are also more personal than journaling, and more public than diaries. A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person’s life and what is happening on the Web. So, there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.

There are a few common characteristics of a blog, but there may be slight variations. Some blogs provide brief descriptions of links within the chosen theme of the blog. Some others contain commentaries and links to the news of the day. Other ones are political, intellectual, or merry. Blogs are posts that are short, informal and deeply personal no matter what the topic of discussion is. They can be characterised by their conversational tone. Two of blogs’ greatest strengths are their ability to filter and spread information to a wide audience, and the position outside the mainstream of mass media.

If a person has a web presence but is disappointed with a static homepage, then blogging provides an ideal platform. There are many different options available to the new and experienced blogger alike. Some blog scripts are available to install on your own domain and these require at least a basic understanding of FTP and HTML. There are many hosted blog services available, some free and some paid. If you are serious about blogging, then I would strongly recommend you to use the

best system that you can afford. My recommended choice of hosted blogging service would have to be the system that includes a wide variety of high quality features that enables you to generate an income from all your readers!