All About Blogs Blogging Blog History Common Blog Terminlogies
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A weblog (the word was coined by Jorn Barger in 1997) is a log or record or collection of stuffs like personal opinions, links to different websites, written and maintained in form a regularly updating website by any person or a group of persons . In a weblog a person expresses his opinions, his favorite sites, even his personal facts,thoughts.
But this was how weblogs were understood in it’s initial phase (1996-97) before Peter Merholz segregated weblog in to two words “we blog” and since then they are known as blogs as blog was the word that was accepted worldwide. But by this time blogs were no more opinions, favorite link collection of any person but represented what ever the owner of the blog liked and the blogs had content in form of running journal where many pages would be added on top of older pages. People expressed their opinions, thoughts, ideas and anything in their blog. By 2003 there were lots of blogs around the world with many new blogs shining up each day. In this period around 2003-2004 blogs received a lot of attraction from bloggers, audience and others and keeping up to such a heavy demand top companies launched many free blogging platforms where any one can create and manage their own blog. One of the finest example is Blogger which was aquired by Google in 2004 and till date is one of the most popular free blogging tool or platform where any can create a blog in minutes.
In this era i.e. 2003-2004 mostly people blogged about personal thoughts, musings,opinions. Some people showcased their works like paintings, writings,poems etc. Also some journalists started writing in blogs regarding world news happenings politics and after the web 2.0 fever caught up this world in late 2004 many people started to help other people by blogging about something they know it may be software tricks or website tricks or gadgets information or reviews they blogged anything. This is the current style of blogging where blogs provide information regarding several niches/categories to other peoples regularly.
Terms Regarding Blogs
Blog Blogs (weblogs of yesteryears) are websites that contain information regarding any specific category in form of several blog posts or articles which are stored chronologically according to the date of publication in a journal format. Also currently this is a place where latest information, latest buzz are written out.
Blog Post This is an entry or an article that you publish in your blog. A blog post consists of either text written by you, links,videos.music,anything. A blogpost can be a tip, a guide, a tutorial any thoughts. It can be a review of any new product you use or you like or you recommend.
Comment Each of your blog posts and pages have a field comments where any users can comment regarding the post/article, ask a question to the author of that article, or give some suggestion. This is the way where the users of the blog interact with themselves and with the authors also.
Trackback When some other blogger links to any of your blog post, then he may send a track back to that post of yours which he linked, so that readers reading your post would know what he (who linked to u) talks regarding your post because his post with title and a link will appear bellow your post in form of a comment.
Readers Those who read your blog posts regularly are your blog’s readers and same with those who come to your blogposts via search engines or other blogs.
Subscribers & Feeds As we know blogs are nothing but collection of articles posted regularly. Several new articles are added regularly and appear in the top of previous article/post. But if you subscribe to the feeds of that blog, you’ll get the updated content of the blog i.e. the new blogposts / articles either emailed to your inbox or would be displayed to you in your feed aggregator software (this type of software displays the feeds to you). All those who have applied to read feeds of your blogs either in email or feed aggregator softwares are your blog’s subscribers or feed subscribers. they receive all your blog posts and do not need to visit your blog to read them. There are 2 main formats for feeds one is RSS which is widely used by most websites including ours and other one is atom feeds. Details regarding feeds
Users They are users who registered with your blog if your blog has an option of user registration (like this blog) . Many blogs like this require each commentators of blog to be registered with them.
Blogging Platform This is a set of tools or scripts provided either as a service by any third party vendor like Blogger.Com or as a software like Wordpress using which you can create your own blog. That may be a site which allows to create a blog under it or a software which you install in your own webhost/servers and create n setup the blog there. Blog Management System or Blog CMS or Blogging System are nothing but different forms of blogging platform
Blogging The art of writing blogposts /articles in a blog is blogging. These are either information regarding anything or personal thoughts of the blog author.
Blogger The person who maintains a blog and who writes in a blog is a blogger. A blog can have multiple authors/bloggers with different roles.