What is blogging?

What is blogging?
Blogging is a way of collecting links to pages you visit often and making comments about them that other people can see.

They're great because they have really personal reviews of websites.

They're also really easy to make so you can have one even if you aren't very technical.


Why Blog
Once upon a time someone thought up the world wide web, and people started making great websites, and everyone else browsed around them, and the concept of surfing was born.

But surfing's no fun if you can't tell people what you've found. How many times have you sent e-mails to your mates with the address of a particularly interesting web page, annotated with your own hilarious comments?

Even better, wouldn't it be good to get your own web page where you could publish these comments, plus the links you stumble across every day, and make the whole thing available to the world?

Well now you can, and if you do, you'll be joining the phenomenon that has become 'blogging'.


The history of blogs
Blogging has become something of a big thing in the last year or so, and some of the biggest and best known weblogs attract the kind of traffic that even big-name e-commerce sites would be jealous of.

Weblogs are more than pages of links - they tend to reflect the personalities of their owners. They are almost always personal web pages, updated very often, and include a mixture of diary, bookmark list, and interactivity.

They can be havens of web design or just text-only. They are the product of their owners' imagination and wit, and it's probably this personal touch which has made them so popular.

The first weblog was probably the Netscape What's New page, but there are varying claims to the title of oldest or earliest weblog on the net.

The word 'weblog' was coined by Jorn Barger, owner of the long-established and extremely popular Robot Wisdom weblog. You can get a lot more about the history of weblogs from his site at robotwisdom.com