What is a Blog and Why are they so Popular?

July 1, 2005

Everyone has a different opinion of how to explain what a blog is. I like to explain what a blog is by contrasting it to a “normal” website, since essentially a blog is a website. But some people define it as a “Mini Personal Newspaper” and “A virtual Diary”. You can define it as you like that will not change anything just keep reading.

Blogs are websites with a few very key differences, namely:

• Articles are listed from the newest to the oldest article.
• It is easy to add content to your site: In my days of HTML every time I wanted to add an article or update my sites with new content I have to open a new HTML file and then create my content adding HTML codes and my content then edit the main site to add a link and a brief introduction to my new article then upload them to the server. That was so pain in the… Anyways with Blogs you just have to login to your admin panel and there is a button called “Write a Post/Page: and here you go, copy and paste your article and hit the button “Publish” and your main site is updated automatically with your new content. Without worrying about html codes!
• Content is updated frequently.
• Blogs allow people to leave comments
• People “trust” blogs more than normal websites because blogging is a conversation