Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Invasion of Blogs

By Susan Champman

Blogs are the newest trend sweeping the internet, but have you ever wondered how blogs originated? In what must indisputably seem as the dark ages before blogs, people searching the companionship of online communities were forced to rely mainly on mailing lists and bulletin boards for communication. By the 1990s, forums had made their appearance and approved users to take part in exchange using 'threads', which were essentially areas of common interest.

Others looking like-minded individuals would set up an online log to share their beliefs and it is from this that the earliest blogs developed. In fact, these groundbreaking blogs were classified 'online diaries' and made their presence around 1994. However, it was three years before the term 'blog' was coined and the recognition for that goes to Jorn Barger. At present, there are many separate types of blogs. The most long-standing of these is still the online journal.

The original blogs were just any more component of already recognized websites. These blogs were more well-matched to technologically progressive users and so weren't widely accepted by the public. The advent of uncomplicated making and upkeep tools brought blogs to the the people, as it were. Now, blogs are easy to make, use and uphold. There are even specific services committed to hosting blogs. Alternatively blogs can be added to existing web hosting services using any of the plentiful blogging software obtainable.

Some of the first hosted tools for blogs contain LiveJournal, which exposed its doors in 1999, and Open Diary, which carved a niche for itself at the time by actuality the initial service]to permit readers to post comments on users' blogs. One of the biggest names in blogging is Blogger.com, which was becoming so familiar that it was bought over by Google in 2003.

Since this time, blogs have garnered increasing notice by conventional media and companies. Blogs have engaged an active role in flouting and spinning news, and are even being used by governmental candidates as a means of scrutinizing public opinion and law execution groups as a way of outreach.

Blogs have benefit from an matchless reputation as proven by Xanga, which hosted a mere 100 blogs in 1997, only to have this number explode to 50 000 000 by December 2005. This may be due, in part, to the unbelievable versatility of blogs. They can be for practically any goal and while characteristic blogs involve principally of text, they can include photos and even videos.

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