Blogging for beginners
There's a nice piece about the massive worldwide blogging boom in the . For those of you still wondering:
The word “blog” appears to date back to 1997, when one of the few practitioners at the time, Jorn Barger, called his site a “weblog”. In 1999, another user, Peter Merholz, playfully broke the word into “we blog”, and somehow the new term—blog—stuck as both a verb and a noun.
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As a "sad" blogger myself I find it interesting to see how people have found my blog. A recent search term that resulted in someone visiting my blog was "house for sale Shore Road Portafery" which I haven't blogged about yet. If you want a few more visits to your site the word "porn" seems to work.I've a lot of visitors from the USA, UK & Ireland and I'm trying to get more from further afield. It's easy to get stuck in a rut,the lazy way, and mainly communicate with other Irish Bloggers.I'll not start about religous blogs, I'm sure thats worth a slot in a radio programme. eg the Free P minister from the Ards Peninsula blogging in Ulster Scots and working in Cork.The gay blogs, from a cop in the PSNI to a 17 year old lesbian ( from N.I.) still in the closet.
Indeed, weblog created opportunity for those who want to use it. It could be a just online diary, discussion forum or professional-like website. For me, weblog could be a digital storage for my columns, database, fact sheets, etc, where visitor can also get benefit from it.
Interesting article. Whether a blog is like mine, a series of articles on political issues - the genesis of conversation - or whether it IS the conversation, blogging is here to stay. For a libertarian like me, such technology can only be a GREAT thing.