Blogging

A Blog is a website or part of a website, which an individual posts description of events, pictures of an event, videos or reviews. This is free and easy to create. Sites like Blogger offers free services for creating blogs. There are also paid sites that offer many features.

Blogs are very popular on the internet. There are millions of blogs on the internet, and millions of people read these blogs. They are of various genres. Two of the popular ones are The Huffington Post and Engadget. People tend to read blogs because they provide interesting and useful information. They sometimes provide detailed and up to date information of certain events that were not covered by the media. For example when Apple announced iPhone 4 during their July press conference, news about it, with details of the conference, were posted on blog sites-few minutes after the announcement and before the media could tell it to the general public. Also blogs are popular because it is free and easy to set up; therefore many people create blogs so that they can spread information. Very popular types of websites are blogs and their popularity will tend increase over next few years.

People create blogs for various reasons. Some create these to share personal experience with other. They do this to show what kind of life they are living, what they are enjoying, and their bad experiences. These blogs can give advice to others on certain things. Some create these to share information on certain items, such as gadgets, movies, vehicles and food. These provide good reviews on these items which can recommend people to buy or not. Some create blogs to provide news on certain events such as war. These are the sites which people can refer to when they want up to date information on certain events. Blogs are created for fun of sharing knowledge. People usually create these anonymously so readers do not know who created these, therefore they can share very personal information or information that is not supposed to be leaked to the general public. People also create blogs to earn money. They earn money from advertising revenue. Companies usually pay popular blog sites to advertise their products on the sites. Companies also create their own blogs for marketing, branding or public relations purposes. There are various reasons for creating a blog, but they are created with the common aim of sharing knowledge.

Blogs are a popular kind of website on the internet with over 100 million of these existing. These are free and easy to create which make them popular. People create this with the common aim of sharing information, but for various reasons.