The Evolution of The Blogging Phenomenon

“To change” and “To change for the better” are two different things. The change in right direction will certainly pave way for improvement. You may think why am I speak about change here?, the reason to pen down few words about change is because of a new sensation created by the change in blogging.  Due to its tremendous and effective changes compared to yester years and today the Blogging sensation has reached to greater heights.

A Not–So-Spectacular Start

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The term “Weblog” was coined on 1997. At the start of blogging it was not so popular as it had many drawbacks. The initial Bloggers pointed out that everything that they see on blog is boring, longwinded, and is more like stream of consciousness thoughts vs. useful information. Early blogs were simply manually updated components of common Web sites. However, the evolution of tools facilitated the production and maintenance of Web very easily.

Sudden Rise In Popularity

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After a slow start, blogging very quickly gained its popularity. The usage of Blog spread during 1999 and within few successive years it reached a great height in the World Wide Web. By 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly main stream, as it was used for expressing political views, news services, and candidates began using them as tools for outreach and opinion forming. Blogging became more popular during war timings. Owing to its great popularity the blogging has been categorized into different types. The main Categories in which Blogs are broadly classified are discussed below.

What Exactly is A Successful blog?

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Not all Blogs can be a hit with the masses, A Blog may be considered as a successful blog only if it satisfies few conditions. In general, A successful blog should

• Contribute something of value and demonstrates your expertise
• Have visitors who read your content regularly
• Get comments and starts conversations

Which Blog Suits You the Best?

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Personal Blogs

Personal blog is all about a individuals activity, thoughts, inspiration, ideas, and everything that happened around me. Personal bloggers usually take pride in their blog posts, even if their blog is never read.

Group Blogs

A blog can be private but in most cases it is for business purpose. Web logs, or blogs, offer a unique channel for developing and maintaining relationships between organizations, and publics. Corporate blogs are generally used to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation and also by marketing, branding or public relation. In other words these blogs may also termed as corporate or organizational blogs.

Genre Blogs

The genre blogs focus on a particular subject, such as political blogs, travel blogs, house blogs, fashion blogs, project blogs, education blogs, niche blogs, classical music blogs, quizzing blogs and legal blogs or dream blogs. Two common types of genre blogs are art blogs and music blogs. Blogs used for sole purpose of spamming is known as a Splog. The blog used by press, tv, etc, are called media blogs.  A blog can be made with the help of devices like mobile, webcam, etc, such types of blogs are called device blogs.