The 1st question: What is a blog?
blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media.
To make it simple, blog is what you call your own web space where you could post, edit, omit, and upload more than pictures. Anything and everything, may or may not contain, your daily journal, favorite stuffs, stories and almost all the topics you fancy. It’s your own world following your own mood, it doesn’t have to be fancy, really witty or cute nor does it have to be real. It only has to be you…
Give it a shot.
Your own spot
You don’t have to be a techie or an internet addictus (addict) to survive your own blog because blog sites (like blogspot, blogger, livejournal and wordpress) offers step-by-step easy-to-follow instructions (don’t bother with HTML), even Friendster.com and Multiply.com has its own blog space attached to your account. Once you realize it, you’ll see that you have ample space to write and post your thoughts and actually enjoy doing it.
If you feel like you have to many ideas lock up in your neurons, you need space, you have opinions and grievances you have to air out before you get insane, and you need to get these all out of your system then blogging is made for you.
No mean feat
To other people, blogging seems to be a complete waste of time and money and the risk of over exposure to computer radiation that is fabled to cause cancer. It requires cumbersome notes, extensive research, a stack of words, mine of ideas, knack for conversations-that-could-grew-to something-worst and enduring an endless tirade of readers commenting, suggesting that you could be mentally subnormal and telling you your blog sucks most of the time.
But other still continue.
But still others continue…
“the end justifies the means”
It serves as an alternative world away from everything else, a space where you could be yourself. Anyone who wants to be somebody else, the main character, the spot light, the center of discussion, the ultimate being, the “it”. People read you. People listen to you. People knew you exist. And for once, it’s about YOU. See?! Enough for anyone to sit in front of their computer rights now and start blogging till wee hours.
But still, isn’t it pathetic?!
In today’s world that boast all things technical from life to death and everything in between is just a click away and miracles are produced everyday, man has to resort himself into creating his own domain. We have the best of both worlds but still…
For me, blogging is the ultimate space for me in this polluted world. There I could post all the things I want to say, blame anyone and everyone and they can’t answer back. Discuss things I don’t usually talk about in a language I’m comfortable with.
But hey, who am I kidding?
Blogging still is one of man’s cyber attics for his frustrations and troubles and ideas in this world as high tech as well as cold.
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