What Is A Blog?

Blog is standing for “Web log”. Log, in its simplest meaning, is a record of events which is written chronologically. Think about a diary. If you have it, you’ll write down some notes about events you experienced on a certain day, headed with date and/or time on top of it. This note can also be about a continuation of events happened the time before. This writing activity will then continue to the next days. Diary is sample of a log.


So, blog or web log is a chronological record about a certain subject, which is kept, saved and shared in World Wide Web. A blog is usually designed with the latest entry on top and the previous entry underneath.


Blog is personal oriented.


What I mean is that the articles, or writings, on a blog are dependent upon how the blogger, people who owns or writes the blog, think about its subject. Thus, you can understand the blogger’s character by simply reading his/her articles and understanding the impression shown in his/her blog.


Subject of a blog could be very various. They range from a light topic, such as celebrity’s gossip, comics, or hobbies, to the more serious one like politic or military stuff. They’re too vast to mention. The other thing is that we can find blogs talking about very similar subject, but seeing the subject from a very different point of view. So it’s not strange if one blog really adores the president of USA, while another blog expresses to hate him very much. Just like I told you before, it depends on the mind of the blogger. You, as a visitor, are free to choose whichever you like.


The blogger would be online or offline very often to search updates of the subject in his/her blog from many resources. He/she then summarizes the information collected in his/her own opinion and write it down in his/her blog as a new entry / posting. This kind of “combining and summarizing” method causes the information in a (good) blog always has a deeper understanding and have a new vision.


There’re also bloggers who blog with their original content. These bloggers are either experts, well-experienced, or knowledgeable person, and therefore being considered as seniors by a blogger community. Or else, they might be so rich by making their blogs as a powerful money machine. You can find in the internet many rich bloggers in the world.


Blog can make money???


Yes, it can. Much… if you want, and work it hard. Many bloggers join Google Adsense and make good money through it. Please, refer to my article about Google Adsense.