What is a Blog?
According to Wikepedia, the definition of a Blog is as follows:
A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order.
Over the last ten years blogs have taken over the Internet, they have long past their original intent of online journals or diaries and have exploded into practically the new “popular” face of the World Wide Web. The fact is that for nearly any hobby, occupation, technology, habit, illness, or desire in the World, it is very likely there are several high quality blogs being published and regularly updated on the subject.
What does that mean for the public? Just as the invention of the Internet fueled a tremendous advance in the overall knowledge base of societies, blogs have taken that a step further by improving the quality of that information as well as the overall quantity.
How has the invention of blogs and their rapid rise in popularity done so much improving of the quality and quantity of the information available to the general public. It has done this by bringing the ability to use the Internet for information sharing into the hands of anyone who has that information and the desire to share it.
Blogging platforms, such as Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, and others have greatly decreased the amount of skill and experience required to launch and maintain a quality website that can still be appealing to the general public. Furthering this movement of web creation to the general public is the fact many of these platforms, including two of the ones mentioned above, allow for absolutely free hosting of these sites. These factors have led to the creation of literally millions of bloggers and even more blogs!
Many of these blogs, such as problogger.net, have worked their way up from being small informational hubs to financial powerhouses drawing tens of thousands of readers and making hundreds of thousands of dollars. This opportunity has sparked the trend in monetization of blogs. Monetization meaning the conversion of all that traffic into a source of revenue for the blogger, bloggers, or owning entities. While wildly successful blogs bringing in large sums of money are rare, the potential for doing so is there and has thus has sparked the creation of even more blogs in the Internet community.
All in all blogs make the world a smarter, if not better, place and the blogging community all in all enjoys providing this benefit for whatever their personal rewards may be.
Why is This Blog So Ugly? – You Have to Start Somewhere
There is a very good reason this blog, Blogiology, is so ugly. You may not believe this, but we have opened Blogiology looking like this on purpose.
Blogiology is a site devoted to helping bloggers across the bloggin’ wide web make their blogs better. Part of this process is allowing you to watch every iteration and upgrade Blogiology will go through as it grows.
Each time anything is added, changed, or removed from Blogiology.com, we are going to tell you and show you exactly how we did it. It would be useless and intimidating for us to start off with a fancy new and polished blog spouting tips and tricks. There are thousands of blogs that do that already and one more is not going to make the world any better of a place. Instead, you can start with us right here and follow along as we take this Blogiology caterpillar and turn into a blogging butterfly. Read more