Thank God there are Blogs!

A few years back (that's about 4 years) making a personal webpage requires one to have HTML knowledge and one must know how to use web content making applications like microsoft's Frontpage, but now things has changed. Now, as long as you have an idea of what you want your site to be and you know have to use the net there's no stopping you to make one.. well... atleast a Blog that is.

The very first time that I heard the blog I did not really have any idea of what it really was and its use. So what is a Blog?

Blog

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A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log or weblog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order. Early weblogs were simply manually updated components of common websites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of web articles posted in said chronological fashion made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging". Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software on regular web hosting services.

Like other media, blogs often focus on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. Some blogs function as online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

So, a blog is generally a webspace that can be used accoring to the owner's own purposes, (more like a swiss knife isn't it?) but what is the diff. Between a Website and a Blog?

On an ordinary user's perspective there isn't that much, only that building a webpage is a lot more complicated than making a Blog. and blogs are pretty much less versitile than Websites where you can upload applications and put in some neat stuuf that you can't really do in most blog sites, though some blogging services now have some of the features  that I mentioned, for a price of course.

there are so many types of blogs now, there are personal blogs which contain the user's personal details and sometimes even thier Public diary, there are also newblogs like Dvorak's Blog that posts some of the tech rumors and news there are also corporate blogs where workers can Post things (like their disappointment to their bosses) and some are just blogs for fun and venues for discussion and posting their opinions about a certain topics. Blogs are truly one of the greatest innonvations in the tech world today and they have made having your own webspace a reality.

Thank God there are Blogs!