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Blog Definition

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Looking for a blog definition?

The Chicago Tribune defines a blog thusly:

“A Weblog is a Web site that maintains a constantly updated list of links to other sites; those links can deal with any subject or focus on a particular one. Webloggers typically offer pithy, sarcastic commentary about the links.”

Or here’s another one:

“A ‘blog’ is short form for ‘web log’, a sort of online personal diary where *anyone* can reveal his/her innermost thoughts, feelings, desires, dreams, ambitions, hopes, fears. A blog lists posts ordered by date, in a personal journal format, and is easier to create than a website – just involves typing into a form and hitting the PUBLISH button.”

Darren Rowse defines a blog as:

‘a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order’ – that is, the newer posts appear first, and older ones later.

Pick the blog definition that works best for you.

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How Do I Start A Blog

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

If you’ve been asking yourself, “How do I start a blog?”, here’s the answer.

Step #1 – Go to Blogger.com – http://www.blogger.com

Step #2 – Click the ‘Sign Up Now’ button. You will reach the
registration page, where you will start to create your
account.

Step #3 – Select a username, and enter other data like your
name, email address and choice of password. After reading
the ‘Terms of Service’, click on the ‘Sign Me Up’ button.

Step #4 – Next comes creating your first blog. Click on the
‘Create a New Blog’ button.

Step #5 – Choose a title and brief description of your blog.

Step #6 – You have a choice between having Blogger.com host
your blog, or having it published to your own website. There
are pros and cons to each approach.

At any stage later on you can have the entire blog transferred
back to your site.

Now all you have to do is keep publishing posts. Don’t worry
about how do I start a blog – it just got ‘fall off a log’ easy!

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Best Male Blogs

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Male Fitness Blog
http://www.malefitnessblog.com/

An excellent resource that easily makes it to the top of this list of “Best Male Blogs” – there is a wealth of content on this blog about exercise, fitness and healthy living for males.

Male and Beautiful
http://maleandbeautiful.blogspot.com/

Another winner that made it to the “Best Male Blogs” list is this collection of photographs of male models.

Male Beauty Forum
http://www.malebeautyforum.com/

Has some useful information and links for males that let us include this one too in the list of “Best Male Blogs”

Adult Male Blogs
http://adultmaleblogs.com/

It’s a place for males to blog, and provides tools, resources and web space, not to mention free blog templates. A shoo-in for including on “Best Male Blogs”

This list of “Best Male Blogs” is short. If you know of any we can add to it, please share. And for more about how to blog, read our other articles.

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What is the definition of a blog?

Friday, November 27th, 2009

A blog may be defined in this way:

“A Weblog is a Web site that maintains a constantly updated list of links to other sites; those links can deal with any subject or focus on a particular one. “

Another way to answer the request for definition of a blog is:

“A ‘blog’ is short form for ‘web log’, a sort of online personal diary. A blog lists posts ordered by date, in a personal journal format. Blogging just involves typing into a form and hitting the PUBLISH button.”

One more way one can state the definition of a blog is:

‘a type of 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.’

Use whichever definition of a blog works for you.

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History of Blog

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Blogging, like all established practices, has a long and interesting backstory. Let’s explore the history of blog and blogging.

Early blogs were simply manually updated components of common Web sites. They were personal diaries, published online.

With the evolution of tools that made the production and maintenance of Web articles posted in reverse chronological order easy, the publishing process changed.

It was now feasible to make publishing a blog accessible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today.

Browser-based software to publish your thought-stream is now a typical aspect of “blogging”. Blogs were once hosted on personal servers or shared hosts. Now blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software, or on regular web hosting services.

The world’s first blog was probably ‘Open Diary’ created by Dave Winer, though the term itself was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997.

At first, blogging like regular diary writing – just done on the Web for everyone to see. As it evolved, a blog became useful for a variety of other purposes.

You can explore more of the history of blog and blogging in other articles here.

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Do You Know The Origin of Blogs?

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

“What did they tell you about the origin of blogs?” I asked a friend who had just returned from a seminar on blogging and how to blog.

“Nothing” she replied.

“Oh, you’re missing out on something exciting! Something as fascinating as the potential blogging has for your business. Do you want to know a bit about origin of blog?”

“Of course” she said.

So we talked about it.

Before blogging was popular, digital communities took many forms. Usenet, commercial online like early CompuServe, e-mail lists and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) came first. Then, in the 1990s, Internet forum software let people run conversations with “threads.”

The modern blog evolved from a form of online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. J

ustin Hall is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers, as is Jerry Pournelle. Dave Winer’s Scripting News is also credited with being one of the oldest and longest running weblogs.

Another early blog was Wearable Wireless Webcam, an online shared diary of a person’s personal life combining text, video, and pictures transmitted live from a wearable computer and EyeTap device to a web site in 1994.

And now you know it too – the origin of blogs!

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How To Have a Blog?

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

If you’ve been wondering about how to have a blog, it’s easy!

You just go to one of the free blog sites and sign up.

There are many blog services that let you set up a blog completely free. The list runs into the hundreds, but a few you can try out are:

On any one of these sites, you can have a blog without having to worry about installing software, configuring databases or doing anything even remotely technical.

Starting out this way is ideal for beginners to test the waters and get an idea of how blogging works.

You register for an account, fill up a few boxes in an online form, choose one of the free blog templates from the collection available – and click a button to have a blog created for you instantly!

Some of the best blog sites started out as free blogs on Blogger or WordPress before moving on to more elaborate solutions. You too can always move your blog to a different location after you have gained some experience.

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Add Content To Your Blog – Automated

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Add content to your blog automated by software and scripts.

By far, the majority of bloggers want to write or create their own content – or have someone do it for them. They will then post it to their blogs manually, on a schedule that’s unique to their blog.

But some blogs are created for the express purpose of reaching and attracting an audience on a niche topic – and doing it in a way that’s quick and effortless for the blogger.

These blogs rely on one thing for their traffic – automated blog content.

By integrating several scripts and ’scraping’ content from across the Web, these blogs can rapidly grow to a size of many thousand pages. And from the point of view of those bloggers, the nicest part is that it can grow without requiring the ‘blogger’ to do anything beyond setting up the system!

You can choose to automate blog postings from various sources – by knowing which scripts to use, and how to set them up to add content to your blog on an automated schedule.

Scraping, syndication and pre-scheduled content all work on this end result… but do it in different ways.

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Is Blog An Acronym?

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

An acronym is defined in the dictionary as:

“A word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words”

So, is blog an acronym?

No… and yes!

“Blog” is a shortened form of two words, “Web Log”.

It is an abbreviation made of the LAST letter of the first word, and the REST of the second word.

Is that an acronym?

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What Does Blog Stand For

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

What does blog stand for?

As a publishing platform that’s an extension of you and your thoughts, opinions, feelings and more, a blog can stand for ANYTHING!

Personal blogs are about individuals and the (not so exciting?!) events in their life.

Corporate blogs are run by businesses, and can be used to share news and information with clients, vendors and the public.

Genre-specific blogs focus on sharing stuff about niche topics with a select audience that enjoys them.

Media blogs leverage the multi-media Web, adding sound, light and movement to the Web.

So, what does a blog stand for?

Today, blogs are rich online resources of content and information, presented in a chronological and categorized fashion, in a way that’s both interesting and useful to consume.

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