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INTRODUCTION blog is an online journal created by an individual a group or a corporation Anyone can write a blog and can in turn read blogs created by others on the Internet The word blog is a short version of the words web and log Blogs are logs of information on the Web just like any other web page Blogging gives you a voice You can write about yourself and what you are doing or you can write about your local sports team or something you heard in the news If something interests you then write about it in your blog Most blogs provide a forum that allows visitors to leave comments and interact with the publisher or blogger Creating a blog is easy This book will tell you some things you need to know about blogging before you get started It will also give you some ideas about what you can write about Are you ready to start blogging Then read on You can have lots of fun writing a blog and reading other blogs All you need is a computer and an Internet
CHAPTER1 BLOG BASICS logs did not exist until the 1990s Today millions of people write blogs and millions more like to read them MESSAGE BOARDS Before blogging became popular people used online message boards to share their thoughts and opinions Many of these sites still exist People use them to exchange ideas in the form of short messages or posts The posts make up a thread or conversation ONLINE JoURNALS Modern blogs developed from online journals Digital diaries first appeared in the early 1990s Computer experts wrote most of them because they were the only people who could build web pages They used a special computer language called Hypertext Markup Language HTML MoDERN BLOGs Blogs became popular when web developers took away all the technical parts of publishing a blog They created software that handled the HTML code making it easy for anyone to write and publish a blog on the
Skype BLOG BASICS BLOG EXPLOSION According to web expert Jesse James Garrett there were just 23 blogs on the Web in 1999 In 2012 this number had risen to more than 180 million and it is growing every day O Jesse James Garrett is a computer scientist and web expert who has studied the rise in popularity of blogs on the World Wide
