What's a blog?

Whats a blog? whats blogging?

• I've never blogged before, it's just like some kinda statement about something relevant, right?

• Answer:

  It doesn't have to be a relevant topic. A blog (i.e. weB LOG) is a type of web site, commonly used an online journal of a person's thoughts. This perspective is expressed with text, video, music, photos, and etc. People typically read blogs out of curiosity about other people's lives and opinions. A blog can have more uses than just an online diary. See these posts for details: http://www.dailyblogtips.com/what-is-a-blog/ , http://www.dailyblogtips.com/27-definitions-for-blog/ , and http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/04/13/blogs-frequently-asked-questions/ . Usually people age 13 and over blog. You can create a blog site for a specific subject or several different ones. Each blog entry is a type of article, and you can set up permissions to allow visitors to post comments about the entry (or to even see the entry in the first place). You can either run a blog-centered web site mostly by yourself or use a developer-hosted blog service to start a blog. See http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/15/choosing-a-blog-platform/ for more details regarding your choices. See below for sites that offer developer-hosted options (including Yahoo!): Free blogging services: Blogger/Blogspot (http://blogger.com ), Wordpress (http://wordpress.com ), Livejournal (http://livejournal.com ), Vox (http://vox.com ), Typepad (http://typepad.com ), Travelpod (http://www.travelpod.com/ ), Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com/ ), Yahoo! Shine (http://shine.yahoo.com - already registered just go to the site) Free social-networking services with blogging capabilities: MySpace (http://myspace.com ), Facebook (http://facebook.com ), Multiply (http://multiply.com ), Xanga (http://xanga.com ), Windows Live Spaces (http://spaces.live.com/ ), Ning (http://ning.com ), Yahoo! Profiles (http://profiles.yahoo.com - already registered just go to the site). Bebo (http://www.bebo.com/ ) and Gaia (http://www.gaiaonline.com/ ) are sites geared toward teenagers.