Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Why blog becoming popular




“A weblog is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in a HTML browser.”
Reference: Winer 2003, ‘What makes a weblog a weblog?’

In 1997, Jorn Barger an American blogger, best known todays. Coined the term “weblog”, and used as we blog by Peter Merholz in his website since 1999. Now have few hosted blog tools such as “Blogger”, that one we are using now. ‘ xanga’, ‘yahoo blogger’…etc. I also using yahoo blogger to write about my daily life. Blog are used to convey information, thoughts and feelings. We can share our life style to other, even we don’t know each other. Before we wrote down our daily in a diary, and keep in our drawer, and don’t want anyone know about it. But when web blog become popular, everyone seem happy to share everything to other. It is like we post our articles in a magazine or newspaper, but now is on the web. Web blog give a chance that every blogger can became a writer, their own story writer. Just to sharing one of my experience, I have writing a blog in yahoo blogger for nearly 3 years. As you know that blogger and reader are interaction, reader can left message in my blog. One day I received a message from a daily newspaper reporter, she request to publish one of my blog’s article. It is my first time that my article can publish in a newspaper!

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