Expression

A blog can be understood as an well structured journal of personal thoughts. As the thoughts are published through the web, this is also known as webblog. The technical media can be of any type - writing, image, audio, video etc. The blogs are updated very frequestly, may be even daily. Generally any sort of matter is published in blogs, but we can notice a bit focus on the areas of personal interests. Thus blogs even reflects the personality of authors. Blogs are social phenomenon, so there is evolution of blogs in daily basis.

The term "webblog" was first applied by Jorn Barger on December 1997. But todays most popular term "blogs" was implemented by Peter Merholz in April 1999. But the term is actually became a craze with the words "blog" and "blogger" by Evan Williams with Pyra Labs' "Blogger".

• Generally websites cast a few particular content, but blogs are arrenged in chronological structure.
• Websites rarely have any content which is updated very frequestly, but new contents are frequestly being added in blogs and even old contents are updated as per requirement.
• The websites are not redears interactive in respect to content, but in blogs readers can post their comments on the content they read in a particular blog.

There are different types of blogs. They are distinguished generally by their type of content. Even in some cases they can be segrigated by the type of their presentation on the web.

• Personal blogs.
• Travel blogs.
• Education blogs.
• Music blogs.
• Corporate blog.
• Fashion blogs etc...

There are reasons why the blogs became so much popular among people.

• The blogs are very simple to setup and much more easier to maintain.
• The bloggers find it quite comfortable to publish new contents and the updaion of the old ones.
• Blogs helps to build up fair social communiy.
• Exchange of cultural thoughts with posts and comments.